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Re: Segmentation Fault of ssh3.7.1 with cygwin1.5.5-1 in W95


On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 09:19:59PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>At 08:06 PM 11/3/2003 +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 01:39:56PM -0500, Pierre A. Humblet wrote:
>>> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:31:15PM +0100, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I see.  I'll create a patch.
>>>  
>>> I started one already, must still compile and test.
>>> Let me know if you proceed on your side.
>>
>>I have a patch ready and it seems to work fine(tm).  Would you mind
>>to give it a try on 95?  Patch below.
>
>Turns out your patch is identical to mine (there is no need to 
>initialize protolen), and it worked on Win95, but a few things 
>trouble me in the reused code:
>
>1) The test "IsBadReadPtr (src->s_proto ..." will unduly fail on Win95
>   if the 16 lsb of the first alias address are the 16 msb of a readable
>   memory address. I don't see why that's impossible. If would safer 
>   to have a wincap entry, or (horror !), testing wincap.osname ().

In my testing, I never saw that, and we've never gotten a bug report to
that effect, IIRC.  I thought that the double check of this pointer made
it pretty safe.

>2) The test "&& !IsBadReadPtr (((pservent *) src) " should never fail
>   when it is reached, but should it fail, s_proto would be assigned an
>   invalid address and the program would crash. So if that test is kept
>   it should be part of a if .. else if ..  (leaving s_proto NULL).
>3) Strictly speaking, we should use IsBadStringPtr..

Yes, and strictly speaking, we should be checking all of the fields in
this structure.

I'll check in an "IsStringPtr" patch.

cgf

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