misc/129855: ipcs integer overflow with UIDs bigger than 65535

Garrett Cooper yanefbsd at gmail.com
Mon Dec 22 13:10:09 PST 2008


The following reply was made to PR misc/129855; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Garrett Cooper" <yanefbsd at gmail.com>
To: "Peter Keel" <peter.keel at hostpoint.ch>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: misc/129855: ipcs integer overflow with UIDs bigger than 65535
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 13:08:33 -0800

 Most likely a bit-width limitation, dealing with uint16_t.
 
 Increasing the internally stored value to uint32_t should make the
 issue go away.
 
 -Garrett


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