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Date: Fri, 06 Jul 2012 12:17:50 +0200
From: magnum <john.magnum@...hmail.com>
To: john-dev@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: KRB4: fix memset in afs_cmu_StringToKey()
On 2012-07-06 12:09, Frank Dittrich wrote:
> On 07/06/2012 11:56 AM, magnum wrote:
>> On 2012-07-06 10:02, Frank Dittrich wrote:
>>> clang 3.0 correctly identified a problem here and issued a warning
>>> [-Wsizeof-pointer-memaccess]
>>>
>>> On linux-x86 (32bit), sizeof(key) is just 4, while sizeof(*key) is 8.
>>>
>>> Attached patch fixes the problem.
>>
>> Are you sure about this? How about sizeof(DES_cblock), what size is that?
>
> Quite sure, sizeof(DES_cblock) is 8.
> On 64bit, sizeof(key) == sizeof(*key) == sizeof(DES_cblock) == 8.
>
> Do you prefer sizeof(DES_cblock) instead of sizeof(*key)?
> I think that's harder to read.
I prefer that a lot. It shows you know what you are doing. sizeof(*key)
looks like a bug to me, just as much as sizeof(key).
magnum
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