[lwip-users] The issue about gethostbyname() function

[linkaiqin]

I have a project using lwip stack with uCOS-III RTOS. lwip version is lwip-37bb0b89f062ed4fc47f0e42146dfdb065e1d6c4 that is from git.

My application thread priority is higher than lwip tcpip_thread priority.

When application  call gethostbyname(),  My RTOS detect the parameter *sem of sys_sem_signal() is uncorrect object type. After debug,  I find the problem.

The gethostbyname() calling procedure is that:

    lwip_gethostbyname()
         netconn_gethostbyname_addrtype()

              tcpip_callback(lwip_netconn_do_gethostbyname, &API_VAR_REF(msg));

              sys_sem_wait(API_EXPR_REF_SEM(API_VAR_REF(msg).sem));

              sys_sem_free(API_EXPR_REF(API_VAR_REF(msg).sem));

When application thread execute to sys_sem_wait() above, it will block.

Then lwip tcpip_thread will call lwip_netconn_do_gethostbyname(msg)  function whose calling procedure is that:

   

    lwip_netconn_do_gethostbyname()

         dns_gethostbyname_addrtype()

               dns_enqueue()

                     dns_check_entry()               dns.c:1379

                           dns_send()                     dns.c:985

                                 dns_call_found()      dns.c:735

lwip_netconn_do_dns_found(arg)   dns.c:899

       msg->err = ERR_VAL

                                                 sys_sem_signal(msg->sem)

After calling sys_sem_signal(msg->sem) function,   application  thread will run again immediately since its priority is higher than lwip tcpip_thread.  Then application  thread will free msg->sem by calling sys_sem_free().

Once lwip tcpip_thread continue to run,  lwip_netconn_do_gethostbyname() will check msg->err if unequal to ERR_INPROGRESS. Because msg->err is set to ERR_VAL above, so sys_sem_signal(msg->sem) will be called.However,  msg->sem is freed already.

This output info by usart is that:

      dns_enqueue: "www.baidu.com": use DNS entry 0
      dns_enqueue: "www.baidu.com": use DNS pcb 0
      dns_send: dns_servers[0] "www.baidu.com": request
      lwip_gethostbyname(www.baidu.com) failed, err=-6
      Could not find host www.baidu.com
      sys_sem_signal: err:24004