Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 09:59:27 GMT From: "Kevin M. Kilbride" <kmk@ssl.org> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: misc/77841: Cast away const in getpublickey() Message-ID: <200502210959.j1L9xR7c046045@www.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <200502211000.j1LA0VCU025146@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 77841
>Category: misc
>Synopsis: Cast away const in getpublickey()
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Mon Feb 21 10:00:31 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Kevin M. Kilbride
>Release: 5.3-STABLE
>Organization:
Sapient Systems Laboratories
>Environment:
FreeBSD devel.localnet 5.3-STABLE FreeBSD 5.3-STABLE #0: Sun Feb 20 21:44:50 PST 2005 chandra@devel.localnet:/usr/src/sys/i386/compile/DEVIL i386
>Description:
getpublickey() declared with const formal parameter, but parameter is simply passed immediately through a chain of functions that discard const attribute of parameter. Calling function should explicitly discard const to avoid compilation errors in buildworld using CFLAGS overrides.
>How-To-Repeat:
>Fix:
--- lib/libc/rpc/getpublickey.c.orig Mon Feb 21 01:50:26 2005
+++ lib/libc/rpc/getpublickey.c Mon Feb 21 01:50:38 2005
@@ -174,5 +174,5 @@
if (__getpublickey_LOCAL != NULL)
return(__getpublickey_LOCAL(netname, publickey));
else
- return(__getpublickey_real(netname, publickey));
+ return(__getpublickey_real((char *)netname, publickey));
}
>Release-Note:
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