From: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
To: Roland Scheidegger <rscheidegger_lists@hispeed.ch>
Cc: Linux and Kernel Video <video4linux-list@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PROBLEM: four bttv tuners in one PC crashed
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2006 20:43:43 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200603072043.44210.duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <440DDA46.2010503@hispeed.ch>
> The bttv driver/chip seems to cause random memory corruption sometimes,
> processes will just start dying...
There is a known buffer overflow in the bttv driver (when using
grabdisplay). The fix is waiting on an audit of the rest of the
bttv (and similar) code, since it looks like the same mistake
occurs in several places.
Ciao,
D.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-07 21:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-06 15:34 Jiri Tyr
2006-03-06 15:56 ` Duncan Sands
2006-03-06 15:58 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-06 18:39 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-07 8:22 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-07 11:50 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-07 12:32 ` Duncan Sands
2006-03-15 8:48 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-15 14:21 ` Sami Farin
2006-03-15 14:30 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-15 15:25 ` Jiri Tyr
2006-03-15 15:41 ` Sami Farin
2006-03-07 19:08 ` Roland Scheidegger
2006-03-07 19:43 ` Duncan Sands [this message]
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2006-03-11 10:08 ` Bodo Eggert
2006-03-12 11:21 ` Sami Farin
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