Re: openssh and sendmsg() problem

[orc <orc@sibserver.ru>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:32:27 +0200
John Spencer <maillist-musl@barfooze.de> wrote:

> On 06/26/2012 07:24 PM, orc wrote:
> > On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:01:06 -0400
> > Rich Felker<dalias@aerifal.cx>  wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> >>> * orc<orc@sibserver.ru>  [2012-06-26 19:01:46 +0800]:
> >>>> strace shows that sendmsg system call returns EINVAL:
> >>>>
> >>>> sendmsg(5, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0", 1}],
> >>>> msg_controllen=24, {cmsg_len=20, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_
> >>>> type=SCM_RIGHTS, {4, 385875968}}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = -1 EINVAL
> >>>> (Invalid argument)
> >>>>
> >>> src/network/sendmsg.c has an ifdef for long>int case
> >>>
> >>> i don't know what it's supposed to do
> >> It's there because the kernel expects certain fields to be long but
> >> POSIX requires them to be int. Thus the syscall wrapper has to copy
> >> the userspace struct (with int and padding) to a kernel-format
> >> struct (with the padding filled with 0's so it's a valid long).
> > And how to deal with this? Should it be openssh workaround or fix in
> > musl itself?
> >
> 
> you might want to try this recipe, which is known to work
> https://github.com/rofl0r/sabotage/blob/master/pkg/openssh
> 

Problem still persists.