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

[Daniel P. Berrange]

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.


Daniel
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