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Re: Another patch (warning)


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Another patch (warning)
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2018 12:34:49 -0700
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On 06/20/2018 12:34 PM, Bruce Korb wrote:
random_r.c:289:13: warning: cast from 'char *' to 'int32_t *' (aka 'int *') increases required alignment from 1 to 4

Thanks for reporting the warning. As Eric mentioned, this is a bug in random_r.c that can cause crashes. I reproduced one such crash and installed the attached patches. The first two merely merge changes from glibc and cleanup, the last one fixes the bug and adds a test case.

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Attachment: 0002-random_r-omit-unnecessary-include.patch
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Attachment: 0003-random_r-do-not-crash-if-state-is-unaligned.patch
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