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From: Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com>
To: musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: Re: Need to zero pads in msghdr
Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2017 10:56:22 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CANaxB-x6+vAc_Jjc42h0J3cZD8hrRazCVRwr5fOgO+R2V9U8Jg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANaxB-wowvkVuSxEiGOMf16fnK+HkDqwEs465HC9m3YRdRhfCQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 8:42 AM, Andrei Vagin <avagin@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In this patch
> http://git.musl-libc.org/cgit/musl/commit/arch/x86_64/bits/socket.h?id=7168790763cdeb794df52be6e3b39fbb021c5a64
> you suppose that the kernel ignores the upper 32 bits of msg_iovlen,
> but it doesn't, so pads in msghdr structures have to be zeroed before
> calling sendmsg and recvmsg syscalls.

Actually the problem is a bit different. In CRIU we use the msghdr
structure from musl-libc, but in some cases we have to call raw system
calls. We don't expect to have pads in structures and so we don't zero
them.

I understand that it is not a bug for many users of mucl-libc, but in
case of CRIU we see this issue.


> https://github.com/xemul/criu/issues/276
>
> Thanks,
> Andrei


  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-01-25 18:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-25 16:42 Andrei Vagin
2017-01-25 17:00 ` Rich Felker
2017-01-25 18:56 ` Andrei Vagin [this message]
2017-01-25 19:40   ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-01-25 19:46     ` Andrei Vagin
2017-01-25 19:59       ` Rich Felker
2017-01-25 23:00       ` Szabolcs Nagy
2017-01-26 15:01         ` Rich Felker

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