[clamav-users] Testing for Big Endian Architectures

[Micah Snyder (micasnyd)]

Thanks Scott, Sebastian, and Orion. I'll keep an eye out for the patch PR.

Best,
Micah


Micah Snyder
ClamAV Development
Talos
Cisco Systems, Inc.
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From: clamav-users <clamav-users-bounces at lists.clamav.net> on behalf of Scott Kitterman via clamav-users <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
Sent: Saturday, January 7, 2023 10:18 PM
To: ClamAV users ML <clamav-users at lists.clamav.net>
Cc: Scott Kitterman <debian at kitterman.com>
Subject: Re: [clamav-users] Testing for Big Endian Architectures



On January 8, 2023 5:40:55 AM UTC, Orion Poplawski <orion at nwra.com> wrote:
>On 1/6/23 14:29, Scott Kitterman via clamav-users wrote:
>> On Thursday, January 5, 2023 8:51:27 AM EST Scott Kitterman via clamav-users
>> wrote:
>>> We finally have Clamav 1.0.0 in Debian Unstable.
>>>
>>> Unfortunately, unit tests fail on all big endian archs (shown in the PowerPC
>>> build log [1] - it's the same tests failing on all of them).  Does upstream
>>> testing include big endian?
>>>
>>> Does anyone have suggestions on how to fix it?  I have access to hardware to
>>> test fixes if there are patches.
>>>
>>> Scott K
>>>
>>> [1]
>>> https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=clamav&arch=powerpc&ver=1.0.
>>> 0%2Bdfsg-4&stamp=1672878929&raw=0
>>
>> My Debian collaborator Sebastian Siewior confirmed there are endianness issues
>> in libclamav/pe.c.  We have a patch we're testing which we will submit
>> upstream to fix this.
>>
>> Scott K
>
>There is this: https://github.com/Cisco-Talos/clamav/issues/759  which perhaps are the same failures you are seeing?  A patch would be appreciated.

Likely the same.

With the patch, all the unit tests pass on s390x now:

https://salsa.debian.org/clamav-team/clamav/-/blob/unstable/debian/patches/libclamav-pe-Use-endian-wrapper-in-more-places.patch

We will submit it more formally, but it's there if anyone wants it in the meantime.

Scott K
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