alsa-project/alsa-lib pull request #231 was opened from smcv:
On 32-bit platforms when not using the large-file-support ABI, struct stat64 contains ino64_t which is 64-bit, while ino_t is only 32-bit.
snd_config_update_r() checks whether a file has been replaced by saving the ino member of a struct stat64 and comparing it with a previously-saved inode number. On 32-bit platforms, assigning the 64-bit member of struct stat64 to a 32-bit member of struct finfo will truncate it modulo 1<<32, which could conceivably result in libasound not reloading configuration when it should (although the inode number space is large enough to make this failure mode highly unlikely).
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This is from source code inspection while looking at #223, I haven't seen a genuine user-observable bug result from this.
cc @dos1, @perexg, @bertogg
Request URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/pull/231 Patch URL : https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib/pull/231.patch Repository URL: https://github.com/alsa-project/alsa-lib