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Date:      Fri, 21 Dec 2001 17:52:52 +0100
From:      Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>
To:        freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org
Subject:   FW: Re: bah: new bug, unaligned accesses in ifconfig on -stable
Message-ID:  <20011221175252.A25617@freebie.xs4all.nl>

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Hi,

I just verified it on my DS10 with 4.5-PRERELEASE and the
problem is exactly what Rich describes below:

ds10#gdb ./ifconfig ifconfig.core 
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This GDB was configured as "alpha-unknown-freebsd"...
Core was generated by `ifconfig'.
Program terminated with signal 10, Bus error.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libipx.so.2...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/lib/libc.so.4...done.
Reading symbols from /usr/libexec/ld-elf.so.1...done.
#0  0x1200039dc in status (afp=0x120009da8, addrcount=0,
sdl=0x74656e62772e30, 
    ifm=0x12002011c, ifam=0x0) at ifconfig.c:1152
1152            if (ifm->ifm_data.ifi_metric)
(gdb) 

I don't quite understand why it happens this way

Wilko


----- Forwarded message from Rich Bud <rbud@fortean.com> -----

Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2001 21:40:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Rich Bud <rbud@fortean.com>
Subject: Re: bah: new bug, unaligned accesses in ifconfig on -stable
To: Wilko Bulte <wkb@freebie.xs4all.nl>

> Using a freshly built -stable buildworld ifconfig gives
> me unaligned accesses. Confirmed on DS10 and DS20. 
> This is a recently introduced bug, last week (IIRC) it was
> not there yet

This was in place as of 7 Dec (revision v1.51.2.14 of ifconfig.c). 
On my 500a only faith0 gave the error; someone else wrote in to say 
it was happening to both their NICs. I tracked it down to line 1120 
(line 1152 in the new v1.51.2.15) in the status() function, where it 
was complaining about the following 2 if statements:

       if (ifm->ifm_data.ifi_metric)
                printf(" metric %d", ifm->ifm_data.ifi_metric);
       if (ifm->ifm_data.ifi_mtu)
                printf(" mtu %ld", ifm->ifm_data.ifi_mtu);

I looked at v1.51.2.13 and put back what they did, which was create
local int variables for mtu and metric (they're u_long in the structure),
and tried:

	int metric, mtu;

...

        metric = ifm->ifm_data.ifi_metric;
        if (metric)
                printf(" metric %d", metric);
        mtu = ifm->ifm_data.ifi_mtu;
        if (mtu)
                printf(" mtu %d", mtu);

That, amazingly, fixed it. I then tried making mtu and metric u_long,
and the errors on the if statements returned. Very odd. I also saw no 
reason why it should happen to different interfaces for different people. 
I meant to come back to this, but got sidetracked and forgot about it
until i saw your post.

		Hope this helps a little,
		Rich Bud <rbud@fortean.com>

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