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Date:      Thu, 15 Dec 2016 07:01:32 +0000
From:      Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>
To:        Dimitry Andric <dim@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r310086 - head/sys/dev/xen/blkfront
Message-ID:  <010001590149368d-51a8dd17-ce30-4c65-a117-087cf47dc8a5-000000@email.amazonses.com>
In-Reply-To: <201612141928.uBEJSJor074348@repo.freebsd.org>
References:  <201612141928.uBEJSJor074348@repo.freebsd.org>

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On 12/14/16 11:28, Dimitry Andric wrote:
> Log:
>   In xbd_connect(), use correct scanf conversion specifiers for the
>   feature_barrier and feature_flush variables.  Otherwise, adjacent
>   variables on the stack, such as sector_size, may be overwritten, with
>   disastrous results.

Thanks!  Did you happen to notice what stack variable (if any?) was being
overwritten under clang 3.8.0?  Just wondering if there might be some
undiscovered issue lurking in FreeBSD releases which will cause other less
obvious problems.

-- 
Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid



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