svn commit: r310086 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront

Colin Percival cperciva at tarsnap.com
Thu Dec 15 07:06:33 UTC 2016


On 12/14/16 11:28, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> Log:
>   In xbd_connect(), use correct scanf conversion specifiers for the
>   feature_barrier and feature_flush variables.  Otherwise, adjacent
>   variables on the stack, such as sector_size, may be overwritten, with
>   disastrous results.

Thanks!  Did you happen to notice what stack variable (if any?) was being
overwritten under clang 3.8.0?  Just wondering if there might be some
undiscovered issue lurking in FreeBSD releases which will cause other less
obvious problems.

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Colin Percival
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