OpenSSH 2.3.0p1: HP-UX 11.00 64-bit

Kevin Steves stevesk at sweden.hp.com
Thu Mar 15 04:32:15 EST 2001


On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, Quentin Bracken wrote:
: I have encountered a problem with using OpenSSH 2.3.0p1 on 64-bit HP-UX
: 11.00 systems.  This bug does not exhibit itself on any 32-bit HP-UX
: 11.00 or HP-UX 10.20 systems that I have built 2.3.0p1 on.  OpenSSH
: 2.3.0p1 was built with HPs ANSI C compiler with OpenSSL 0.9.6 and zlib
: 1.1.3.
:
: The problem is with the call to vhangup(2) in sshd when interactive
: sessions are started.  The problem does not occur for non-interactive
: sessions.  When vhangup(2) is called, the following error is sent to
: syslog:
:
: Mar 13 21:14:37 hpux1100 vmunix: System call 76 (vhangup) was called in
: a kernel where the
: Mar 13 21:14:37 hpux1100 vmunix: type of at least one of its arguments
: is currently
: Mar 13 21:14:37 hpux1100 vmunix: unspecified.  This is a problem that
: must be fixed by
: Mar 13 21:14:37 hpux1100 vmunix: the owner of the system call before the
: kernel can be
: Mar 13 21:14:37 hpux1100 vmunix: released.  The process was pid 19386
: (sshd).

i submitted a defect report on this in october.

but i believe that for STREAMS ptys the vhangup equivalent is considered
the grantpt(3C) and unlockpt(3C) pair.  can someone confirm this?

i propose the following:

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/openssh/configure.in,v
retrieving revision 1.265
diff -u -r1.265 configure.in
--- configure.in	2001/03/14 00:39:46	1.265
+++ configure.in	2001/03/14 17:20:09
@@ -71,7 +71,6 @@
 	AC_DEFINE(DISABLE_SHADOW)
 	AC_DEFINE(IPV4_DEFAULT)
 	AC_DEFINE(IP_TOS_IS_BROKEN)
-	AC_DEFINE(BROKEN_VHANGUP)
 	AC_DEFINE(NO_X11_UNIX_SOCKETS)
 	no_libsocket=1
 	no_libnsl=1
Index: defines.h
===================================================================
RCS file: /var/cvs/openssh/defines.h,v
retrieving revision 1.56
diff -u -r1.56 defines.h
--- defines.h	2001/02/24 00:55:05	1.56
+++ defines.h	2001/03/14 17:20:15
@@ -406,9 +406,9 @@
 # endif /* defined(HAVE_XATEXIT) */
 #endif /* !defined(HAVE_ATEXIT) && defined(HAVE_ON_EXIT) */

-#if defined(HAVE_VHANGUP) && !defined(BROKEN_VHANGUP)
+#if defined(HAVE_VHANGUP) && !defined(HAVE_DEV_PTMX)
 #  define USE_VHANGUP
-#endif /* defined(HAVE_VHANGUP) && !defined(BROKEN_VHANGUP) */
+#endif /* defined(HAVE_VHANGUP) && !defined(HAVE_DEV_PTMX) */

 #ifndef GETPGRP_VOID
 # define getpgrp() getpgrp(0)






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