Segmentation Fault of ssh3.7.1 with cygwin1.5.5-1 in W95

Corinna Vinschen corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com
Mon Nov 3 19:06:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 09:43:14AM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > > Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
> > > 
> > > > The real problem is that the s_proto pointer of the struct servent
> > > > returned by the Windows getservbyname on Win95 is invalid. 
> > > 
> > > Looking at net.cc, this problem seems to be well known.
> > > However the workaround is only applied when copying the string,
> > > not when computing its length.
> > 
> > I see.  I'll create a patch.
>  
> I started one already, must still compile and test.
> Let me know if you proceed on your side.

I have a patch ready and it seems to work fine(tm).  Would you mind
to give it a try on 95?  Patch below.

Corinna

Index: net.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/src/src/winsup/cygwin/net.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.154
diff -u -p -r1.154 net.cc
--- net.cc	25 Sep 2003 00:37:17 -0000	1.154
+++ net.cc	3 Nov 2003 19:06:12 -0000
@@ -499,8 +499,21 @@ dup_ent (void *old, void *src0, struct_t
   /* Do servent/hostent specific processing */
   int protolen = 0;
   int addr_list_len = 0;
+  char *s_proto = NULL;
   if (type == is_servent)
-    sz += (protolen = strlen_round (src->s_proto));
+    {
+      if (src->s_proto)
+	{
+	  /* Windows 95 idiocy.  Structure is misaligned on Windows 95.
+	     Kludge around this by trying a different pointer alignment.  */
+	  if (IsBadReadPtr (src->s_proto, sizeof (src->s_proto))
+	      && !IsBadReadPtr (((pservent *) src)->s_proto, sizeof (src->s_proto)))
+	    s_proto = ((pservent *) src)->s_proto;
+	  else
+	    s_proto = src->s_proto;
+	}
+      sz += (protolen = strlen_round (s_proto));
+    }
   else if (type == is_hostent)
     {
       /* Calculate the length and storage used for h_addr_list */
@@ -549,16 +562,8 @@ dup_ent (void *old, void *src0, struct_t
       /* Do servent/hostent specific processing. */
       if (type == is_servent)
 	{
-	  if (src->s_proto)
+	  if (s_proto)
 	    {
-	      char *s_proto;
-	      /* Windows 95 idiocy.  Structure is misaligned on Windows 95.
-		 Kludge around this by trying a different pointer alignment.  */
-	      if (IsBadReadPtr (src->s_proto, sizeof (src->s_proto))
-		  && !IsBadReadPtr (((pservent *) src)->s_proto, sizeof (src->s_proto)))
-		s_proto = ((pservent *) src)->s_proto;
-	      else
-		s_proto = src->s_proto;
 	      strcpy (dst->s_proto = dp, s_proto);
 	      dp += protolen;
 	    }


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