openssh 3.7p1 bus error on sparcv9

[Jason Parsons]

openssh 3.7p1 sshd on Solaris 8 / sparcv9:

sshd runs fine, and starts to allow the login.  However, when reading 
from /etc/default/login, I get a bus error.  I am able to get sshd to 
work by commenting out these lines in session.c:

1015,1018c1015
< #  ifdef HAVE_ETC_DEFAULT_LOGIN
<               read_etc_default_login(&env, &envsize, pw->pw_uid);
<               path = child_get_env(env, "PATH");
< #  endif /* HAVE_ETC_DEFAULT_LOGIN */

Here is an truss of the failure:

1904:   open("/etc/default/login", O_RDONLY)            = 7
1904:   fstat(7, 0xFFFFFFFF7FFFD7F0)                    = 0
1904:   ioctl(7, TCGETA, 0xFFFFFFFF7FFFD72C)            Err#25 ENOTTY
1904:   read(7, " #   i d e n t\t " @ ( #".., 8192)     = 2042
1904:   read(7, 0x1001D23B4, 8192)                      = 0
1904:   lseek(7, 0, SEEK_CUR)                           = 2042
1904:   close(7)                                        = 0
1904:       Incurred fault #5, FLTACCESS  %pc = 0xFFFFFFFF7E299934
1904:         siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0xFFFFFFFF7FFFEA9C
1904:       Received signal #10, SIGBUS [default]
1904:         siginfo: SIGBUS BUS_ADRALN addr=0xFFFFFFFF7FFFEA9C
1904:           *** process killed ***
1900:       Received signal #18, SIGCLD [caught]
1900:         siginfo: SIGCLD CLD_KILLED pid=1904 status=0x000A
1900:   sigaction(SIGCLD, 0x00000000, 0xFFFFFFFF7FFFE950) = 0
1900:   write(4, "\0", 1)                               = 1
1900:   setcontext(0xFFFFFFFF7FFFEBD0)
1900:   close(8)                                        = 0
1900:   dup(7)                                          = 8
1900:   dup(7)                                          = 9

The problem seems to be that read_etc_default_login() assumes that a 
u_int (unsigned int) is the same size as a size_t.  This is true in 
sparcv7, but not in sparcv9:

jparsons at sparc64:~# cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>

int main() {

int n;
size_t size;
unsigned int uint;

   printf ("size_t: %d, u_int: %d\n", sizeof(size), sizeof(uint));

}

jparsons at sparc64:~# gcc -v
Reading specs from 
/usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc64-sun-solaris2.8/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3/configure --enable-threads=posix 
--enable-shared --build=sparc64-sun-solaris2.8 
--host=sparc64-sun-solaris2.8 --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3

jparsons at sparc64:~# gcc -o test ./test.c
jparsons at sparc64:~# ./test
size_t: 8, u_int: 4

jparsons at sparc:~# gcc -v
Reading specs from /usr/local/lib/gcc-lib/sparc-sun-solaris2.8/3.3/specs
Configured with: ../gcc-3.3/configure --host=sparc-sun-solaris2.8 
--enable-threads=posix --enable-shared --enable-languages=c,c++,f77,objc
Thread model: posix
gcc version 3.3

jparsons at sparc:~# ./test
size_t: 4, u_int: 4

I imagine this effects other 64-bit platforms as well.

  - Jason Parsons



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