Fix bug which caused dnsmasq to become unresponsive when an interface goes.

CHANGELOG

@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@ version 2.72
             Fix bug when resulted in NXDOMAIN answers instead of NODATA in
             some circumstances.
 
+	    Fix bug which caused dnsmasq to become unresponsive if it 
+	    failed to send packets due to a network interface disappearing.
+	    Thanks to Niels Peen for spotting this.
+	    
 
 version 2.71
             Subtle change to error handling to help DNSSEC validation 

src/util.c

@@ -570,15 +570,25 @@ void bump_maxfd(int fd, int *max)
 
 int retry_send(void)
 {
-   struct timespec waiter;
+  /* Linux kernels can return EAGAIN in perpetuity when calling
+     sendmsg() and the relevant interface has gone. Here we loop
+     retrying in EAGAIN for 1 second max, to avoid this hanging 
+     dnsmasq. */
+
+  static int retries = 0;
+  struct timespec waiter;
+
    if (errno == EAGAIN || errno == EWOULDBLOCK)
      {
        waiter.tv_sec = 0;
        waiter.tv_nsec = 10000;
        nanosleep(&waiter, NULL);
-       return 1;
+       if (retries++ < 1000)
+	 return 1;
      }
 
+   retries = 0;
+   
    if (errno == EINTR)
      return 1;