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Hi, Kristian! Yes, it is maintained, I've forwarded your email to the maintainer. On Oct 21, Kristian Nielsen wrote:
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From: Kristian Nielsen To: MariaDB Developers Subject: [Maria-developers] Patch for unaligned word access in CONNECT storage engine Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2016 23:16:45 +0200 List-Archive: http://lists.launchpad.net/maria-developers Who should be contacted about issues in the CONNECT storage engine?
The attached patch is from Debian Bug#838914
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=838914
Apparently the code does direct unaligned accesses of word data. This works fine on the x86 architecture, but on some other architectures (like MIPS), it causes a bus error.
In other places in the server code, the similar issue is handled correctly with uint4korr() and similar macros (though these also deal with byte order).
I think the patch (or something similar) is good and should be upstreamed. But I am not sure how the CONNECT storage engine is maintained - should this go directly into MariaDB? If there is an upstream maintained CONNECT storage engine, probably it should preferably go there first?
- Kristian.g
Regards, Sergei Chief Architect MariaDB and security@mariadb.org