alignment problem in monitor_fdpass.c

[Jim Knoble]

Circa 2008-02-20 04:31 dixit John Hay:

: After FreeBSD changed from using -O2 to using -O on their ARM port, I
: found that sshd stopped working. (gcc version 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD])
: I have downloaded openssh-SNAP-20080220.tar.gz and the code still look
: the same.
: 
: Anyway looking into it, I found that the problem is in monitor_fdpass.c
: in the functions mm_send_fd and mm_receive_fd. Using -O2 used to align
: the tmp array on a 4 byte boundary and using -O does not. On
: architectures that do not like unaligned accesses this will break.

It's best to file a bug report about this at the OpenSSH bug tracker:

    http://www.openssh.com/report.html

The developers are more likely to see it (and not to lose track of it).

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