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Date: Thu, 08 May 2008 23:17:10 -0600
From: James Yonan <jim@...41...>
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Subject: Re: [Openvpn-devel] [patch] OpenVPN 2.1_rc7, multihome and 64 bit
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To: Tim Davies <tim@...1090...>
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Tim Davies wrote:
> After attempting to use OpenVPN 2.1_rc7 on a 64 bit Centos 5 platform, 
> I came across a peculiar error when enabling multihome.  Basically no 
> UDP packets were allowed to send due to an incorrect size being set.
>
> The problem seems to be in socket.c, where sizeof(opi) is incorrect.  
> The structure is defined as:
>
> struct openvpn_pktinfo
> {
>  struct cmsghdr cmsghdr;
>  struct in_pktinfo in_pktinfo;
> };
>
> On a 64 bit platform, sizeof(struct cmsghdr) is 16, and sizeof(struct 
> in_pktinfo) is 12.  Due to structure padding, sizeof(struct 
> openvpn_pktinfo) is 32, not 28.
>
> The attached patch fixed the problem, although I'm not sure it's the 
> best way to go about it.
>


I've merged a patch into the subversion directory for the 2.1 series 
that addresses this using #pragma pack(1)

http://svn.openvpn.net/projects/openvpn/branches/BETA21/openvpn/

It will be included in 2.1-rc8.  Let me know if it fixes the problem.

James