From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756628AbYHTNcR (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750880AbYHTNcF (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:05 -0400 Received: from mail-gx0-f16.google.com ([209.85.217.16]:39968 "EHLO mail-gx0-f16.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750882AbYHTNcD (ORCPT ); Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:32:03 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=wFCm50/43yKJLhzghTKI5uAh0r8dw/biwGskxLSsXOH8MMJ/7biQP+rHmSqQkyZpqQ 5iZifwmRgksbK0KJglEuDw+Em5v50Akfq2X/p47Lf9k17mab3RBzp7DbY2ZcIaLqtjny jtpCq6MU6Uwd7Ppz+pJZOb/Xm+pAsK6xs3VTo= Date: Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:57 -0400 From: Dmitry Torokhov To: Andrew Morton Cc: Justin Mattock , Linux Kernel Mailing List , linux-input@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, Message-ID: <20080820092806.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net> References: <20080820000040.55015b48.akpm@linux-foundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080820000040.55015b48.akpm@linux-foundation.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.17 (2007-11-01) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:54 -0700 "Justin Mattock" wrote: > > > I'm noticing: > > evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64 > > bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html > > with rc-3 not with rc2. > > Did the patch to synaptics, seems > > my xorg is not reading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o > > only /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so > > is there any easy fix, or do I have to recompile xorg? > > regards; > > > > (cc's added) > You can just copy the updated file manually into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/. I tried rebuilding synaptics from here: git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics but unfortunately it fails with some automake crap that I don't have time to trace through at the moment. -- Dmitry