[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Fix dbus message reading code on big endian hosts
Eric Blake
eblake at redhat.com
Mon Jul 29 16:46:25 UTC 2013
On 07/29/2013 10:40 AM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> From: "Daniel P. Berrange" <berrange at redhat.com>
>
> The way we were casting small (<32bit) integers was broken
> on big endian hosts, causing stack smashing. This was detected
> in the test suite either by test failures due to incorrect
> results, or by libc/gcc abort'ing with its stack canary
> triggered.
>
> In v2:
>
> - Added missing change to virdbus.c
The v2 designation can be trimmed before you push; it helps review, but
doesn't need to live in libvirt.git.
> case DBUS_TYPE_UINT16:
> - GET_NEXT_VAL(dbus_uint16_t, unsigned int, "%d");
> + GET_NEXT_VAL(dbus_uint16_t, short unsigned, "%d");
Works, but 'unsigned short' is a bit more typical.
ACK.
--
Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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