Re: [smartmontools-support] unaligned access problem on sparc64 (FreeBSD 9.1)

[John G. <gn...@to...>]

I don't think smartmontools should circumvent this kernel bug in the
smartmontools source code.  If they don't fix the FreeBSD kernel bug,
then any unprivileged program can panic the system with one system
call.  If they do fix the FreeBSD kernel bug, then no change to
smartmon is needed.

If we change smartmon, then the kernel bug is more likely to slip 
through the cracks, leaving a lingering vulnerability.

The original unofficial patch (which aligned a single variable, rather
than many structs using maintenance-complicating conditional
compilation) is all that is needed for the few sites who can't patch
their kernel and who need to quickly patch smartmon to diagnose their
drives.

	John