nss: when we encounter an invalid user/group name or UID/GID, don't return EINVAL

It's not our business to validate invalid user/group names or UID/GID.
Ideally, libc would filter these out, but they don't, hence we have to
filter, but let's not propagate this as error, but simply as "not found"
to the caller.

User name rules are pretty vaguely defined, and the rules defined by
POSIX clash with reality quite heavily (for example, utmp doesn't offer
enough room for user name length, and /usr/bin/chown permits separating
user/group names by a single dot, even though POSIX allows dots being
used in user/group names themselves.) We enforce stricter rules than
POSIX for good reason, and hence in doing so we should not categorically
return EINVAL on stuff we don't consider valid, but other components
might.

Fixes: #4983

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/src/nss-mymachines/nss-mymachines.c b/src/nss-mymachines/nss-mymachines.c
index 895f61c462..fac37faea5 100644
--- a/src/nss-mymachines/nss-mymachines.c
+++ b/src/nss-mymachines/nss-mymachines.c
@@ -512,10 +512,8 @@ enum nss_status _nss_mymachines_getpwuid_r(
 
         BLOCK_SIGNALS(NSS_SIGNALS_BLOCK);
 
-        if (!uid_is_valid(uid)) {
-                r = -EINVAL;
-                goto fail;
-        }
+        if (!uid_is_valid(uid))
+                goto not_found;
 
         /* We consider all uids < 65536 host uids */
         if (uid < HOST_UID_LIMIT)
@@ -686,10 +684,8 @@ enum nss_status _nss_mymachines_getgrgid_r(
 
         BLOCK_SIGNALS(NSS_SIGNALS_BLOCK);
 
-        if (!gid_is_valid(gid)) {
-                r = -EINVAL;
-                goto fail;
-        }
+        if (!gid_is_valid(gid))
+                goto not_found;
 
         /* We consider all gids < 65536 host gids */
         if (gid < HOST_GID_LIMIT)