diff --git a/doc/TODO.020 b/doc/TODO.020
index f524e1bd3..cee44befb 100644
--- a/doc/TODO.020
+++ b/doc/TODO.020
@@ -3,8 +3,8 @@
 description of the patch.)
 
 Backport for 0.2.0:
-   - r17891: Fix a fun OpenBSD warning.
-   - r17892: Fix another fun OpenBSD warning.
+   o r17891: Fix a fun OpenBSD warning.
+   o r17892: Fix another fun OpenBSD warning.
 
 Backport for 0.2.0 once better tested:
   Xo r16621: Make some DNS code more robust (partial; see also libevent
diff --git a/src/common/torgzip.c b/src/common/torgzip.c
index d1289443e..103f2025d 100644
--- a/src/common/torgzip.c
+++ b/src/common/torgzip.c
@@ -143,7 +143,16 @@ tor_gzip_compress(char **out, size_t *out_len,
   }
  done:
   *out_len = stream->total_out;
-  if (stream->total_out > out_size + 4097) {
+#ifdef OPENBSD
+  /* "Hey Rocky!  Watch me change an unsigned field to a signed field in a
+   *    third-party API!"
+   * "Oh, that trick will just make people do unsafe casts to the unsigned
+   *    type in their cross-platform code!"
+   * "Don't be foolish.  I'm _sure_ they'll have the good sense to make sure
+   *    the newly unsigned field isn't negative." */
+  tor_assert(stream->total_out >= 0);
+#endif
+  if (((size_t)stream->total_out) > out_size + 4097) {
     /* If we're wasting more than 4k, don't. */
     *out = tor_realloc(*out, stream->total_out + 1);
   }
diff --git a/src/common/util.c b/src/common/util.c
index b57d8a9f8..af6c3d02a 100644
--- a/src/common/util.c
+++ b/src/common/util.c
@@ -73,8 +73,13 @@ const char util_c_id[] = "$Id$";
 #include <malloc/malloc.h>
 #endif
 #ifdef HAVE_MALLOC_H
+#ifndef OPENBSD
+/* OpenBSD has a malloc.h, but for our purposes, it only exists in order to
+ * scold us for being so stupid as to autodetect its presence.  To be fair,
+ * they've done this since 1996, when autoconf was only 5 years old. */
 #include <malloc.h>
 #endif
+#endif
 
 /* =====
  * Memory management
diff --git a/src/or/directory.c b/src/or/directory.c
index 9f1f130c5..d0671fccf 100644
--- a/src/or/directory.c
+++ b/src/or/directory.c
@@ -8,8 +8,10 @@ const char directory_c_id[] =
 
 #include "or.h"
 #if defined(EXPORTMALLINFO) && defined(HAVE_MALLOC_H) && defined(HAVE_MALLINFO)
+#ifndef OPENBSD
 #include <malloc.h>
 #endif
+#endif
 
 /**
  * \file directory.c