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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block/vdi: Don't take address of fields in pack
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Kevin Wolf |
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Re: [Qemu-block] [PATCH] block/vdi: Don't take address of fields in packed structs |
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Wed, 17 Oct 2018 16:55:46 +0200 |
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Mutt/1.10.1 (2018-07-13) |
Am 16.10.2018 um 19:25 hat Peter Maydell geschrieben:
> Taking the address of a field in a packed struct is a bad idea, because
> it might not be actually aligned enough for that pointer type (and
> thus cause a crash on dereference on some host architectures). Newer
> versions of clang warn about this. Avoid the bug by not using the
> "modify in place" byte swapping functions.
>
> There are a few places where the in-place swap function is
> used on something other than a packed struct field; we convert
> those anyway, for consistency.
>
> Patch produced with scripts/coccinelle/inplace-byteswaps.cocci.
>
> There are other places where we take the address of a packed member
> in this file for other purposes than passing it to a byteswap
> function (all the calls to qemu_uuid_*()); we leave those for now.
>
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <address@hidden>
Thanks, applied to the block branch.
Kevin