[libvirt] [PATCH v2] Fix dbus message reading code on big endian hosts

[Jiri Denemark]

On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 17:57:55 +0100, Daniel Berrange wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Yep, this was only added when composing the email.
> 
> > >          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.
> 
> Ok, will change it.
> 
> > ACK.
> 
> Waiting for Jiri to confirm that it builds on all other architectures
> before pushing.

Current git + this patch builds on ppc, s390, x86_64, ppc64, i686, and
s390x.

ACK

Jirka