Subject: [PATCH v2 1/3] daemon: fix IPv6 address corruption in lookup_hostname()

From: "Sebastien Tardif via GitGitGadget" <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 27 May 2026 18:18:29 +0000

From: Sebastien Tardif <[email-masked]>

getaddrinfo() is called with AF_UNSPEC hints, so it may return IPv6
results. However, the code unconditionally casts ai_addr to
sockaddr_in and passes AF_INET to inet_ntop(). On IPv6-only hosts,
this reads from the wrong struct offset, producing garbage IP
addresses.

Fix this by checking ai_family and extracting the address pointer
into a local variable before calling inet_ntop() once with the
correct family. Die on unexpected address families.

Signed-off-by: Sebastien Tardif <[email-masked]>
---
 daemon.c | 15 +++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/daemon.c b/daemon.c
index 0a7b1aae44..80fa0226d8 100644
--- a/daemon.c
+++ b/daemon.c
@@ -674,9 +674,20 @@ static void lookup_hostname(struct hostinfo *hi)
 
 		gai = getaddrinfo(hi->hostname.buf, NULL, &hints, &ai);
 		if (!gai) {
-			struct sockaddr_in *sin_addr = (void *)ai->ai_addr;
+			void *addr;
+
+			if (ai->ai_family == AF_INET) {
+				struct sockaddr_in *sa = (void *)ai->ai_addr;
+				addr = &sa->sin_addr;
+			} else if (ai->ai_family == AF_INET6) {
+				struct sockaddr_in6 *sa6 = (void *)ai->ai_addr;
+				addr = &sa6->sin6_addr;
+			} else {
+				die("unexpected address family: %d",
+				    ai->ai_family);
+			}
 
-			inet_ntop(AF_INET, &sin_addr->sin_addr,
+			inet_ntop(ai->ai_family, addr,
 				  addrbuf, sizeof(addrbuf));
 			strbuf_addstr(&hi->ip_address, addrbuf);
 
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