[Xcb] [PATCH] Add missing alignment padding to SetupRequest struct

Alessandro Arzilli alessandro.arzilli at gmail.com
Mon Jan 23 16:21:36 UTC 2017


Any reason this was not merged for xcb-proto 1.12?

Alessandro Arzilli.

On 13/09/2015 12:49, aarzilli wrote:
> Fields  AuthorizationProtocolName and AuthorizationProtocolData of
> SetupRequest should be padded:
>
> http://www.x.org/releases/current/doc/xproto/x11protocol.html#Encoding::Connection_Setup
>
> The problem was discovered by github user pphaneuf while trying to use xgb
> to write his own implementation of the connection handshake. Neither xgb
> nor xcb actually use code generated for SetupRequest for the handshake,
> which is why this bug went unnoticed.
>
> https://github.com/BurntSushi/xgb/issues/24
>
> Alessandro Arzilli.
>
> ---
>  src/xproto.xml | 2 ++
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/src/xproto.xml b/src/xproto.xml
> index bfb8a4c..143318b 100644
> --- a/src/xproto.xml
> +++ b/src/xproto.xml
> @@ -195,9 +195,11 @@ authorization from the authors.
>      <list type="char" name="authorization_protocol_name">
>        <fieldref>authorization_protocol_name_len</fieldref>
>      </list>
> +    <pad align="4" />
>      <list type="char" name="authorization_protocol_data">
>        <fieldref>authorization_protocol_data_len</fieldref>
>      </list>
> +    <pad align="4" />
>    </struct>
>
>    <struct name="SetupFailed">
>



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