On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 04:08:40PM +0100, Michal Židek wrote:
> On 11/14/2013 01:14 PM, Lukas Slebodnik wrote:>>From
> 45336d3596b8d93ebf866c727c566169c404b60c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> >> >From: Michal Zidek<[email protected]>
> >> >Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 23:09:04 +0200
> >> >Subject: [PATCH 6/7] Properly align buffer when storing pointers.
> >> >
> >> >Properly align buffer address to sizeof(char *) when storing
> >> >pointers to string and disable alignment warnings with #pragma.
> >> >
> >> >resolves:
> >> >https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/ticket/1359
> >> >---
> >> >src/sss_client/nss_group.c    | 5 +++--
> >> >src/sss_client/nss_mc_group.c | 3 +++
> >> >src/sss_client/nss_services.c | 4 ++--
> >> >3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> >> >
> >> >diff --git a/src/sss_client/nss_group.c b/src/sss_client/nss_group.c
> >> >index a7fb093..68e14d3 100644
> >> >--- a/src/sss_client/nss_group.c
> >> >+++ b/src/sss_client/nss_group.c
> >> >@@ -233,14 +233,15 @@ static int sss_nss_getgr_readrep(struct
> sss_nss_gr_rep *pr,
> >> >                                   NULL);
> >> >     if (ret != EOK) return ret;
> >> >
> >> >-    /* Make sure pr->buffer[i+pad] is 32 bit aligned */
> >> >+    /* Make sure pr->buffer[i+pad] is aligned to sizeof(char *) */
> >> >     pad = 0;
> >> >-    while((i + pad) % 4) {
> >> >+    while((i + pad) % sizeof(char *)) {
> >    I am not sure about this. There was comment;
> >    "Make sure pr->buffer[i+pad] is 32 bit aligned"
> >
> > And you changed alignment to 64-bits on x86_64 and to 32-bits on i386
> > platform.
> > This is a client code, so some more experienced should tell what
> > is the right solution.
> >
> 
> Aligning the address to 4 bytes and then using it as the beginning
> of array of pointers is simply wrong and should be fixed. So I think
> it was a mistake in both the code and the comment (maybe one led to
> the other). But is is possible that I am reading the code wrong.
> 
> Michal

Simo, can you check this patch, please? According to git history, you
added code that aligned to 32bits, do you remember what was the purpose?
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