Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2000 02:11:08 -0500 (EST) From: "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu> To: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@freebsd.org Subject: bin/17681: XDR does not handle 64bit data types correctly Message-ID: <200003300711.CAA27589@monica.cs.rpi.edu>
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>Number: 17681
>Category: bin
>Synopsis: XDR does not handle 64bit data types correctly
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: freebsd-bugs
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Wed Mar 29 23:20:01 PST 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: David E. Cross
>Release: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE i386
>Organization:
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Department of Computer Science Lab
>Environment:
Mixed big endian/little endian machines attempting to communicate.
>Description:
The XDR routines for 64bit data types do not propperly byte-swap
the data.
>How-To-Repeat:
Write an NFSv4 Locking implimentation. Submit it for public testing,
get back many error reports.
>Fix:
Apply the patch derived from NetBSD which is available at
http://www.cs.rpi.edu/~crossd/FreeBSD/xdr.diff
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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