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-rw-r--r--Lib/test/test_socket.py2
-rw-r--r--Misc/NEWS7
-rw-r--r--Modules/socketmodule.c19
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Lib/test/test_socket.py b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
index 31ac892..1899e78 100644
--- a/Lib/test/test_socket.py
+++ b/Lib/test/test_socket.py
@@ -380,10 +380,12 @@ class GeneralModuleTests(unittest.TestCase):
self.assertEquals('\xff\x00\xff\x00', f('255.0.255.0'))
self.assertEquals('\xaa\xaa\xaa\xaa', f('170.170.170.170'))
self.assertEquals('\x01\x02\x03\x04', f('1.2.3.4'))
+ self.assertEquals('\xff\xff\xff\xff', f('255.255.255.255'))
self.assertEquals('\x00\x00\x00\x00', g('0.0.0.0'))
self.assertEquals('\xff\x00\xff\x00', g('255.0.255.0'))
self.assertEquals('\xaa\xaa\xaa\xaa', g('170.170.170.170'))
+ self.assertEquals('\xff\xff\xff\xff', g('255.255.255.255'))
def testIPv6toString(self):
if not hasattr(socket, 'inet_pton'):
diff --git a/Misc/NEWS b/Misc/NEWS
index 0bb698b..5bf94c0 100644
--- a/Misc/NEWS
+++ b/Misc/NEWS
@@ -133,9 +133,12 @@ Core and builtins
Extension Modules
-----------------
-- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
+- Patch #756021: Special-case socket.inet_aton('255.255.255.255') for
+ platforms that don't have inet_aton().
-- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
+- Bug #1215928: Fix bz2.BZ2File.seek() for 64-bit file offsets.
+
+- Bug #1191043: Fix bz2.BZ2File.(x)readlines for files containing one
line without newlines.
- Bug #728515: mmap.resize() now resizes the file on Unix as it did
diff --git a/Modules/socketmodule.c b/Modules/socketmodule.c
index 3c17e9c..059153d 100644
--- a/Modules/socketmodule.c
+++ b/Modules/socketmodule.c
@@ -3238,14 +3238,19 @@ socket_inet_aton(PyObject *self, PyObject *args)
return NULL;
#else /* ! HAVE_INET_ATON */
- /* XXX Problem here: inet_aton('255.255.255.255') raises
- an exception while it should be a valid address. */
- packed_addr = inet_addr(ip_addr);
+ /* special-case this address as inet_addr might return INADDR_NONE
+ * for this */
+ if (strcmp(ip_addr, "255.255.255.255") == 0) {
+ packed_addr = 0xFFFFFFFF;
+ } else {
+
+ packed_addr = inet_addr(ip_addr);
- if (packed_addr == INADDR_NONE) { /* invalid address */
- PyErr_SetString(socket_error,
- "illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton");
- return NULL;
+ if (packed_addr == INADDR_NONE) { /* invalid address */
+ PyErr_SetString(socket_error,
+ "illegal IP address string passed to inet_aton");
+ return NULL;
+ }
}
return PyString_FromStringAndSize((char *) &packed_addr,
sizeof(packed_addr));