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[3.6] bpo-28055: Fix unaligned accesses in siphash24(). (GH-6123) #6778

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@miss-islington miss-islington commented May 13, 2018

The hash implementation casts the input pointer to uint64_t* and directly reads
from this, which may cause unaligned accesses. Use memcpy() instead so this code
will not crash with SIGBUS on sparc.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636400
(cherry picked from commit 1e2ec8a)

Co-authored-by: Rolf Eike Beer eike@sf-mail.de

https://bugs.python.org/issue28055

The hash implementation casts the input pointer to uint64_t* and directly reads
from this, which may cause unaligned accesses. Use memcpy() instead so this code
will not crash with SIGBUS on sparc.

https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=636400
(cherry picked from commit 1e2ec8a)

Co-authored-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike@sf-mail.de>
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@DerDakon and @serhiy-storchaka: Backport status check is done, and it's a success ✅ .

@miss-islington miss-islington merged commit 0d17e60 into python:3.6 May 13, 2018
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Thanks!

@miss-islington miss-islington deleted the backport-1e2ec8a-3.6 branch May 13, 2018 11:40
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