Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 14:59:26 GMT From: Christian Kandeler <christian.kandeler@hob.de> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/122195: Alignment problems in if_ed Message-ID: <200803281459.m2SExQ0k018978@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200803281500.m2SF00Ip072050@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 122195
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Alignment problems in if_ed
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
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>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Fri Mar 28 15:00:00 UTC 2008
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>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Christian Kandeler
>Release: 7.0
>Organization:
HOB
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>Description:
Function ed_pio_write_mbufs() in sys/dev/ed/if_ed.c has at least two alignment problems:
1) The savebyte array is cast to an unsigned short pointer and then dereferenced, but since it is a character array, it may not be suitably aligned.
2) The call to ed_asic_outsw() assumes that the data pointer can be dereferenced as an unsigned short, but I don't think there is any guarantee that it fulfills the alignment requirements.
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