Add a 'numeric' flag to the InetSocketAddress struct to allow the caller to indicate that DNS should be skipped for the host/port fields. This is useful if the caller knows the address is already numeric and wants to guarantee no (potentially blocking) DNS lookups are attempted.
Signed-off-by: Daniel P. Berrange <berra...@redhat.com> --- qapi-schema.json | 5 +++++ util/qemu-sockets.c | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/qapi-schema.json b/qapi-schema.json index a0d3b5d..d59f8cc 100644 --- a/qapi-schema.json +++ b/qapi-schema.json @@ -3070,6 +3070,10 @@ # # @port: port part of the address, or lowest port if @to is present # +# @numeric: #optional true if the host/port are guaranteed to be numeric, +# false if name resolution should be attempted. Defaults to false. +# (Since 2.9) +# # @to: highest port to try # # @ipv4: whether to accept IPv4 addresses, default try both IPv4 and IPv6 @@ -3084,6 +3088,7 @@ 'data': { 'host': 'str', 'port': 'str', + '*numeric': 'bool', '*to': 'uint16', '*ipv4': 'bool', '*ipv6': 'bool' } } diff --git a/util/qemu-sockets.c b/util/qemu-sockets.c index fe1d07a..d63b011 100644 --- a/util/qemu-sockets.c +++ b/util/qemu-sockets.c @@ -141,6 +141,9 @@ static int inet_listen_saddr(InetSocketAddress *saddr, memset(&ai,0, sizeof(ai)); ai.ai_flags = AI_PASSIVE; + if (saddr->has_numeric && saddr->numeric) { + ai.ai_flags |= AI_NUMERICHOST | AI_NUMERICSERV; + } ai.ai_family = inet_ai_family_from_address(saddr, &err); ai.ai_socktype = SOCK_STREAM; -- 2.9.3