On 22 Mar 2014, at 08:19, Alan Bateman <alan.bate...@oracle.com> wrote:
> On 22/03/2014 08:13, Chris Hegarty wrote: >> The native SCTP implementation assumes that the given byte buffer ( buffer >> address + position ) is memory aligned. It re-uses the buffer for handling >> notifications from the SCTP Stack ( as well as for reading data off the >> socket ). This can result in a SIBGUS on sparc(v9) if the address is not 4 >> byte aligned [1]. >> >> The trivial solution is to copy the SCTP notification into a stack allocated >> buffer, for handling, if the given address is not 4 byte aligned. >> >> http://cr.openjdk.java.net/~chegar/8034181/webev.00/webrev/ >> > It looks like the stack allocated buffer will be out of scope when you use it > and I assume it would be safer to declare buf at L465 or so. Good point. I did think about this, but wasn’t sure if it would cause problems. I’ll move it. -Chris. > > -Alan.
