NetBSD Problem Report #1771

From gnats  Fri Nov 17 00:55:08 1995
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Date: Thu, 16 Nov 1995 21:35:28 -0800
From: bwalker@musings.com
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To: gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org
Subject: problem w/ KIOCGETKEY ioctl in sparc/dev/kbd.c
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>Number:         1771
>Category:       port-sparc
>Synopsis:       problem w/ KIOCGETKEY ioctl in sparc/dev/kbd.c
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    port-sparc-maintainer
>State:          closed
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Nov 17 01:05:02 +0000 1995
>Closed-Date:    Mon Mar 13 13:57:46 +0000 2000
>Last-Modified:  Mon Mar 13 14:18:29 +0000 2000
>Originator:     Brad Walker
>Release:        gnats-3.95
>Organization:
		Digital Musings, Inc.
>Environment:
		NetBSD netbsd 1.0A NetBSD 1.0A (SUN4C) #0

>Description:
		the following truncates the top byte of HOLE
		((struct okiockey *)data)->kio_entry = (u_char)HOLE;

		HOLE is defined value that is greater than a u_char
		which is what kio_entry is.

>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:
		typecast the value of HOLE or change the value of kio_entry
		in struct okiockey
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->analyzed 
State-Changed-By: pk 
State-Changed-When: Fri Jan 5 08:19:06 EST 1996 
State-Changed-Why:  
This seems to be a goof on the X11 server's part. I guess the value HOLE 
was never intended to be passed back in the `okiockey' structure. 
Changing kio_entry is out of the question since the sole reason it's there 
is to provide binary compatibility. 
Responsible-Changed-From-To: gnats-admin->port-sparc-maintainer 
Responsible-Changed-By: fair 
Responsible-Changed-When: Mon Dec 28 09:29:50 PST 1998 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
This PR is the responsibility of the portmaster, 
not the GNATS database administrator. 
State-Changed-From-To: analyzed->closed 
State-Changed-By: pk 
State-Changed-When: Mon Mar 13 05:57:46 PST 2000 
State-Changed-Why:  
This problem has been eliminated in NetBSD 1.3 
>Unformatted:

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