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Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 20:32:27 +0200
From: John Spencer <maillist-musl@...fooze.de>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: openssh and sendmsg() problem
On 06/26/2012 07:24 PM, orc wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 12:01:06 -0400
> Rich Felker<dalias@...ifal.cx> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Jun 26, 2012 at 02:00:17PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
>>> * orc<orc@...server.ru> [2012-06-26 19:01:46 +0800]:
>>>> strace shows that sendmsg system call returns EINVAL:
>>>>
>>>> sendmsg(5, {msg_name(0)=NULL, msg_iov(1)=[{"\0", 1}],
>>>> msg_controllen=24, {cmsg_len=20, cmsg_level=SOL_SOCKET, cmsg_
>>>> type=SCM_RIGHTS, {4, 385875968}}, msg_flags=0}, 0) = -1 EINVAL
>>>> (Invalid argument)
>>>>
>>> src/network/sendmsg.c has an ifdef for long>int case
>>>
>>> i don't know what it's supposed to do
>> It's there because the kernel expects certain fields to be long but
>> POSIX requires them to be int. Thus the syscall wrapper has to copy
>> the userspace struct (with int and padding) to a kernel-format struct
>> (with the padding filled with 0's so it's a valid long).
> And how to deal with this? Should it be openssh workaround or fix in
> musl itself?
>
you might want to try this recipe, which is known to work
https://github.com/rofl0r/sabotage/blob/master/pkg/openssh
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