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authorjeffro256 <jeffro256@tutanota.com>2023-10-23 16:28:02 -0500
committerjeffro256 <jeffro256@tutanota.com>2023-10-24 13:00:45 -0500
commiteae62a07e075acdd8555420f3f961a82eff0a342 (patch)
treef578b76a4a05b470e338e9720945b585e02a61c2
parentMerge pull request #9014 (diff)
downloadmonero-eae62a07e075acdd8555420f3f961a82eff0a342.tar.xz
ringct: make `rctSigBase` serialization follow strict aliasing rule
Accessing an object of type `char` thru an lvalue of type `crypto::hash8` is undefined behavior. https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2020/06/03/the-joys-and-perils-of-aliasing-in-c-and-c-part-2
-rw-r--r--src/ringct/rctTypes.h12
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/src/ringct/rctTypes.h b/src/ringct/rctTypes.h
index ab1a26b26..32cd8dc6f 100644
--- a/src/ringct/rctTypes.h
+++ b/src/ringct/rctTypes.h
@@ -362,11 +362,17 @@ namespace rct {
{
if (type == RCTTypeBulletproof2 || type == RCTTypeCLSAG || type == RCTTypeBulletproofPlus)
{
+ // Since RCTTypeBulletproof2 enote types, we don't serialize the blinding factor, and only serialize the
+ // first 8 bytes of ecdhInfo[i].amount
ar.begin_object();
- if (!typename Archive<W>::is_saving())
+ crypto::hash8 trunc_amount; // placeholder variable needed to maintain "strict aliasing"
+ if (!typename Archive<W>::is_saving()) // loading
memset(ecdhInfo[i].amount.bytes, 0, sizeof(ecdhInfo[i].amount.bytes));
- crypto::hash8 &amount = (crypto::hash8&)ecdhInfo[i].amount;
- FIELD(amount);
+ else // saving
+ memcpy(trunc_amount.data, ecdhInfo[i].amount.bytes, sizeof(trunc_amount));
+ FIELD(trunc_amount);
+ if (!typename Archive<W>::is_saving()) // loading
+ memcpy(ecdhInfo[i].amount.bytes, trunc_amount.data, sizeof(trunc_amount));
ar.end_object();
}
else