[gnutls-dev] Unaligned access on IA64

Ian Wienand ianw at gelato.unsw.edu.au
Thu Sep 25 05:03:02 CEST 2003


Hi,

GNUTLS is causing some unaligned access warnings on IA64.  See
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au/linux-ia64/0309/6847.html for a small
discussion about my findings.

Anyway, suggested patch attached.  

2003-09-25  Ian Wienand <ianw at ieee.org> 
 
	* lib/gnutls_handshake.c : modifiy to use memcpy in 
	_gnutls_server_select_suite and 
	_gnutls_server_find_pk_algos_in_ciphersuites
	to stop alignment problems on IA64.

-i
ianw at gelato.unsw.edu.au
http://www.gelato.unsw.edu.au 

-------------- next part --------------
--- ./gnutls7-0.8.9/lib/gnutls_handshake.c	2003-02-04 23:52:24.000000000 +1100
+++ gnutls7-0.8.9-align/lib/gnutls_handshake.c	2003-09-25 13:03:22.000000000 +1000
@@ -509,9 +509,11 @@
 int j;
 gnutls_pk_algorithm algo=-1, prev_algo = 0;
 gnutls_kx_algorithm kx;
+GNUTLS_CipherSuite cs;
 
 	for (j = 0; j < datalen; j += 2) {
-		kx = _gnutls_cipher_suite_get_kx_algo(*((GNUTLS_CipherSuite *) & data[j]));
+		memcpy(&cs, &data[j], sizeof(GNUTLS_CipherSuite));
+		kx = _gnutls_cipher_suite_get_kx_algo(cs);
 		
 		if ( _gnutls_map_kx_get_cred( kx, 1) == GNUTLS_CRD_CERTIFICATE) {
 			algo = _gnutls_map_pk_get_pk( kx);
@@ -531,7 +533,7 @@
 int _gnutls_server_select_suite(gnutls_session session, opaque *data, int datalen)
 {
 	int x, i, j;
-	GNUTLS_CipherSuite *ciphers;
+	GNUTLS_CipherSuite *ciphers,cs;
 	int retval, err;
 	gnutls_pk_algorithm pk_algo; /* will hold the pk algorithms
 			      * supported by the peer.
@@ -558,10 +560,10 @@
 
 #ifdef HANDSHAKE_DEBUG
 	_gnutls_handshake_log("HSK: Requested cipher suites: \n");
-	for (j = 0; j < datalen; j += 2)
-		_gnutls_handshake_log("\t%s\n",
-			    _gnutls_cipher_suite_get_name(*
-							  ((GNUTLS_CipherSuite *) & data[j])));
+	for (j = 0; j < datalen; j += 2) {
+		memcpy(&cs, &data[j], sizeof(GNUTLS_CipherSuite));
+		_gnutls_handshake_log("\t%s\n", _gnutls_cipher_suite_get_name(cs));
+	}
 	_gnutls_handshake_log("HSK: Supported cipher suites: \n");
 	for (j = 0; j < x; j++)
 		_gnutls_handshake_log("\t%s\n",
@@ -575,11 +577,11 @@
 		for (i = 0; i < x; i++) {
 			if (memcmp(ciphers[i].CipherSuite, &data[j], 2) ==
 			    0) {
+				memcpy(&cs, &data[j], sizeof(GNUTLS_CipherSuite));
 				_gnutls_handshake_log("HSK: Selected cipher suite: ");
-				_gnutls_handshake_log("%s\n",
-					    _gnutls_cipher_suite_get_name(*
-									  ((GNUTLS_CipherSuite *) & data[j])));
-				memcpy(session->security_parameters.current_cipher_suite.CipherSuite, ciphers[i].CipherSuite, 2);
+				_gnutls_handshake_log("%s\n", _gnutls_cipher_suite_get_name(cs));
+				memcpy(session->security_parameters.current_cipher_suite.CipherSuite, 
+				       ciphers[i].CipherSuite, 2);
 				retval = 0;
 				goto finish;
 			}


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