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From: valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu
To: "Mihai Donțu" <mihai.dontu@gmail.com>
Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Darren Hart <dvhart@infradead.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy@infradead.org>,
	Platform Driver <platform-driver-x86@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: wmi: usercopy: Kernel memory overwrite attempt detected to spans multiple pages (offset 0, size 4104)
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 19:03:33 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <134035.1529276613@turing-police.cc.vt.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1529263827.6069.4.camel@gmail.com>

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On Sun, 17 Jun 2018 22:30:27 +0300, Mihai Donțu said:

> Your patch works OK for me, thank you. The libsmbios tool, however, not
> so much. It appears to be behind latest developments.
>
> # echo "+keyboard" >/sys/class/leds/dell\:\:kbd_backlight/start_triggers
>
> is all that is needed today.

If you're ever in this remote corner of southwest Virginia, I owe you a beverage.
I was going bonkers trying to figure out why my Dell Latitude's keyboard no
longer had a backlight... (and wondering if I was going to need to replace it
*again* - this laptop is 5 years old and on its third keyboard already)

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  reply	other threads:[~2018-06-17 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-16 21:01 Mihai Donțu
2018-06-16 22:04 ` Mihai Donțu
2018-06-17 17:36   ` Kees Cook
2018-06-17 19:30     ` Mihai Donțu
2018-06-17 23:03       ` valdis.kletnieks [this message]
2018-06-18 13:34       ` Mario.Limonciello

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