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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-08-01 17:35:45 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190801173545-swvm0c6e1e00qdwi
password-agent: Fix memory alignment issue

On many architectures (armel, armhf, mips, mips64el, mipsel, hppa,
ia64, sh4, and sparc64) GCC shows a warning when casting a "char *" to
a "struct inotify_event *"; The exact warning message from GCC is
"cast increases required alignment of target type [-Wcast-align]".

* dracut-module/password-agent.c (read_inotify_event): Change
  "ievent_buffer" to an anonymous struct instead of a char array.
  (test_read_inotify_event_IN_CLOSE_WRITE): - '' -
  (test_read_inotify_event_IN_MOVED_TO): - '' -
  (test_read_inotify_event_IN_DELETE): - '' -
  (test_read_inotify_event_IN_CLOSE_WRITE_badname): - '' -
  (test_read_inotify_event_IN_MOVED_TO_badname): - '' -
  (test_read_inotify_event_IN_DELETE_badname): - '' -

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-08-04">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-04-10">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      plugin requirements.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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  <refsect1 id="systemd">
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    <title>SYSTEMD</title>
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    <para>
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      More advanced startup systems like <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      already have their own plugin-like mechanisms for allowing
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      multiple agents to independently retrieve a password and deliver
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      it to the subsystem requesting a password to unlock the root
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      file system.  On these systems, it would make no sense to run
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, the plugins of
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      which would largely duplicate the work of (and conflict with)
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      the existing systems prompting for passwords.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      As for <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> in particular, it has
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      its own <ulink
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      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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      >Password Agents</ulink> system.  Mandos uses this via its
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> program, which
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      is run instead of <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum
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      ></citerefentry> when <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      is used during system startup.
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    </para>
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  <refsect1 id="bugs">
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    <title>BUGS</title>
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    <xi:include href="bugs.xml"/>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-prompt</refentrytitle>