From: Jim Hague <jim.hague@acm.org>
To: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, jsimmons@infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Fix NULL-ptr dereference in pm2fb_probe
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:14:22 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <XFMail.20040423091422.jim.hague@acm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <40887BE3.9080502@trash.net>
On 23-Apr-2004 Patrick McHardy wrote:
> This patch fixes a NULL-pointer dereference in pm2fb_probe.
> The memset sets info->par to 0, it is dereferenced shortly
> afterwards. framebuffer_alloc already initializes the memory
> to 0, so it can simply be removed.
Thanks for your work. We've overlapped on this one, I'm afraid - a couple of
days ago I sent a patch off to James and the fbdev list that addresses this and
a bug in pm2fb_blank().
Out of interest, can I ask if you're running pm2fb and if so on what hardware?
--
Jim Hague - jim.hague@acm.org Never trust a computer you can't lift.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-04-23 8:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-04-23 2:13 Patrick McHardy
2004-04-23 8:14 ` Jim Hague [this message]
2004-04-23 14:34 ` Patrick McHardy
2004-04-23 23:07 ` James Simmons
2004-04-24 12:19 ` Jim Hague
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