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Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 01:24:41 +0800
From: orc <orc@...server.ru>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: openssh and sendmsg() problem

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?

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