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From: "Blue Swirl" <blauwirbel@gmail.com>
To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Cc: kvm-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, kvm-ia64-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Making SLIRP code more 64-bit clean
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:10:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <f43fc5580801300910w583f39br18d2c6e60e2370a3@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A0A90B.50407@lanl.gov>

On 1/30/08, Scott Pakin <pakin@lanl.gov> wrote:
> Zhang, Xiantao wrote:
> > Scott Pakin wrote:
> >> The attached patch corrects a bug in qemu/slirp/tcp_var.h that defines
> >> the seg_next field in struct tcpcb to be 32 bits wide regardless of
> >> 32/64-bitness.  seg_next is assigned a pointer value in
> >> qemu/slirp/tcp_subr.c, then cast back to a pointer in
> >> qemu/slirp/tcp_input.c and dereferenced.  That produces a SIGSEGV on
> >> my system.
> >
> >
> > I still hit it on IA64 platform with your patch, once configured with
> > slirp.
>
> Okay, here's a more thorough patch that fixes *all* of the "cast from/to
> pointer to/from integer of a different size" mistakes that gcc warns
> about.  Does it also solve the SIGSEGV problem on IA64?

The SLIRP code is much, much more subtle than that. Please see this thread:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2007-10/msg00542.html

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-30 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-29 17:11 [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Making SLIRP code more 64-bit clean Scott Pakin
2008-01-30  4:27 ` [Qemu-devel] RE: [kvm-devel] " Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-30 16:42   ` [Qemu-devel] " Scott Pakin
2008-01-30 17:10     ` Blue Swirl [this message]
2008-02-01  1:26       ` [kvm-ia64-devel] [Qemu-devel] Re: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] MakingSLIRP " Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-31  8:24     ` [Qemu-devel] RE: [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Making SLIRP " Zhang, Xiantao
2008-01-31 18:38       ` [Qemu-devel] " Scott Pakin
2008-02-01  1:37         ` Scott Pakin
2008-02-01  2:44     ` [Qemu-devel] RE: [kvm-ia64-devel] [kvm-devel] [PATCH] Making SLIRP code more64-bit clean Zhang, Xiantao

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