[PATCH] Fix misaligned access accessing HEADER struct in res_query.c
Florian Weimer
fweimer@redhat.com
Wed Jun 15 11:56:00 GMT 2016
On 06/15/2016 01:42 PM, John David Anglin wrote:
> The attached patch fixes BZ 20243. The HEADER struct needs to be packed so that
> byte accesses are used. Tested using glibc 2.22-11on hppa. Please install if okay.
> -} HEADER;
> +} __attribute__ ((packed)) HEADER;
Unfortunately, we cannot apply this simple fix because this is a public
header, and the above changes alignment of the struct. It would also
have to be __attribute__ ((__packed__)).
Florian
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