The call to fdopen can fail in several ways.
The fprintf on the next line will then dereference a
NULL-pointer FILE*.
Added a NULL-check, closed the socket, returned system error
and added a comment about it.
Change-Id: I7a6b26aa3c79452b1fdd76af12dfa75da88cbad7
// Send the request.
proxy = fdopen(sock, "r+");
+ if (proxy == NULL) {
+ // Failed to map sock to FILE*. Check errno for the cause.
+ // @sonymobile.com saw failures in automated testing, but
+ // couldn't reproduce it for debugging.
+ // Fail with EAI_SYSTEM and let callers handle the failure.
+ close(sock);
+ return EAI_SYSTEM;
+ }
+
if (fprintf(proxy, "getaddrinfo %s %s %d %d %d %d %u",
hostname == NULL ? "^" : hostname,
servname == NULL ? "^" : servname,