Bug 1114240

Summary: Bad pointer manipulation on 64 bit architectures
Product: [Fedora] Fedora EPEL Reporter: Mattias Ellert <mattias.ellert>
Component: RAssignee: Tom "spot" Callaway <tcallawa>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: epel7CC: dan, jcajka, michel, tcallawa
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Hardware: ppc64   
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Fixed In Version: rkward-0.6.1-9.fc20 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2014-09-06 20:30:26 UTC Type: Bug
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Patch correcting the pointer type none

Description Mattias Ellert 2014-06-29 03:57:12 UTC
Created attachment 913144 [details]
Patch correcting the pointer type

Description of problem:

Casts a pointer to uintptr_t to a pointer to unsigned int.

On a 32 bit architecture this is OK since sizeof(uintptr_t) == sizeof(unsigned int).

On a 64 bit LE architecture (like x86_64) this is not quite right. The unsigned int will be the lower 32 bits of the uintptr_t. As long as the value is less than 2^32 it will work - which is usually the case here.

On a 64 bit BE architecture (like ppc64) this is very wrong. The unsigned int will be the high 32 bits of the uintptr_t, i.e. the value is divided by 2^32.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

R-core-3.1.0-5.el7.ppc64.rpm
R-core-3.1.0-5.el6.ppc64.rpm

Patch attached.

Additional info:

I found this issue when I tried to figure out why the %check fails on the build of R-qtl. However, I have no access to a ppc64 RHEL installation so I can not be sure this is the reason for the failure. I would have to do a chained scratch build in koji which is not possible. The current R-qtl specfile puts the check inside %ifnarch ppc64.

Comment 1 Jakub Čajka 2014-07-04 09:57:41 UTC
I have made test rebuild of R-qtl using patched R on ppc64. %check passes without any problems.

Comment 2 Tom "spot" Callaway 2014-07-08 19:47:44 UTC
Upstream R is merging this change into 3.1.1. We'll pick it up with that drop later this week.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2014-07-17 14:50:43 UTC
rkward-0.6.1-9.fc20,rpy-2.3.10-2.fc20,R-3.1.1-1.fc20,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc20 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 20.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rkward-0.6.1-9.fc20,rpy-2.3.10-2.fc20,R-3.1.1-1.fc20,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc20

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2014-07-17 14:50:56 UTC
rkward-0.6.1-9.fc19,rpy-2.3.10-2.fc19,R-3.1.1-1.fc19,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc19 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 19.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/rkward-0.6.1-9.fc19,rpy-2.3.10-2.fc19,R-3.1.1-1.fc19,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc19

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2014-07-17 14:51:07 UTC
R-3.1.1-1.el5,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.el5 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 5.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-3.1.1-1.el5,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.el5

Comment 6 Fedora Update System 2014-07-17 14:51:18 UTC
R-3.1.1-1.el6,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.el6 has been submitted as an update for Fedora EPEL 6.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/R-3.1.1-1.el6,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.el6

Comment 7 Fedora Update System 2014-07-19 06:06:51 UTC
Package rkward-0.6.1-9.fc19, rpy-2.3.10-2.fc19, R-3.1.1-1.fc19, R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc19:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 19 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing rkward-0.6.1-9.fc19 rpy-2.3.10-2.fc19 R-3.1.1-1.fc19 R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc19'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2014-8532/rkward-0.6.1-9.fc19,rpy-2.3.10-2.fc19,R-3.1.1-1.fc19,R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc19
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2014-09-06 20:30:26 UTC
R-3.1.1-1.el5, R-qtl-1.32.10-4.el5 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 5 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2014-09-06 20:31:07 UTC
R-3.1.1-1.el6, R-qtl-1.32.10-4.el6 has been pushed to the Fedora EPEL 6 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 10 Fedora Update System 2014-09-09 22:08:26 UTC
rkward-0.6.1-9.fc19, rpy-2.3.10-2.fc19, R-3.1.1-1.fc19, R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc19 has been pushed to the Fedora 19 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.

Comment 11 Fedora Update System 2014-09-09 22:23:35 UTC
rkward-0.6.1-9.fc20, rpy-2.3.10-2.fc20, R-3.1.1-1.fc20, R-qtl-1.32.10-4.fc20 has been pushed to the Fedora 20 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.