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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>2011-12-02 21:13:10 -0500
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>2011-12-02 21:13:10 -0500
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Remove aliasing problems in NIS code
-rw-r--r--ChangeLog3
-rw-r--r--nis/nis_findserv.c6
2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index a0ba6b0..6763ac1 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,5 +1,8 @@
2011-12-02 Ulrich Drepper <drepper@gmail.com>
+ * nis/nis_findserv.c (__nis_findfastest_with_timeout): Avoid aliasing
+ problem.
+
* nscd/aicache.c (addhstaiX): Avoid unused variable warning.
2011-11-29 Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
diff --git a/nis/nis_findserv.c b/nis/nis_findserv.c
index b1a9aa7..b02c63b 100644
--- a/nis/nis_findserv.c
+++ b/nis/nis_findserv.c
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-/* Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+/* Copyright (C) 1997, 1998, 2000, 2001, 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>, 1997.
@@ -175,7 +175,9 @@ __nis_findfastest_with_timeout (dir_binding *bind,
(xdrproc_t) xdr_void, (caddr_t) 0,
*timeout);
if (RPC_SUCCESS == rc) {
- fastest = *((u_int32_t *) (cu->cu_inbuf)) - xid_seed;
+ u_int32_t val;
+ memcpy (&val, cu->cu_inbuf, sizeof (u_int32_t));
+ fastest = val - xid_seed;
if (fastest < pings_count) {
bind->server_used = pings[fastest].server_nr;
bind->current_ep = pings[fastest].server_ep;