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lib/57478: ntohs(3) and friends behave differently to manpage for big endian
>Number: 57478
>Category: lib
>Synopsis: ntohs(3) and friends behave differently to manpage for big endian
>Confidential: no
>Severity: serious
>Priority: medium
>Responsible: lib-bug-people
>State: open
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: net
>Arrival-Date: Thu Jun 22 03:50:00 +0000 2023
>Originator: Rin Okuyama
>Release: 10.99.3
>Organization:
Internet Initiative Japan Inc.
>Environment:
NetBSD console 10.99.3 NetBSD 10.99.3 (SUNXI_NET_MPSAFE) #0: Mon May 22 11:10:46 JST 2023 rin@latipes:/build/src/sys/arch/evbarm/compile/SUNXI_NET_MPSAFE evbarm earmv7hfeb
>Description:
ntohs(3) reads:
----
uint16_t
ntohs(uint16_t net16);
----
However, it is defined for big endian machines as:
<sys/endian.h>:
----
...
112 #if BYTE_ORDER == BIG_ENDIAN && !defined(__lint__)
113 #define ntohl(x) (x)
114 #define ntohs(x) (x)
115 #define htonl(x) (x)
116 #define htons(x) (x)
...
----
Therefore, ntohs(0x11111111) yeilds 0x11111111 on big endian machines.
This behavior is apparently inconsistent with its manpage (and
POSIX). However, this should be a REALLY old bug, and I'm not 100%
sure whether it is safe to correct this.
>How-To-Repeat:
Compile and run this sample code:
----
#include <sys/endian.h>
#include <stdio.h>
int
main(void)
{
int i;
i = ntohs(0x11111111);
printf("0x%08x\n", i);
return 0;
}
----
0x00001111 and 0x11111111 are obtained for amd64 and earmv7hf-eb,
respectively.
>Fix:
#define ntohs(x) ((uint16_t)(x)) and so on.
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