Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing sentinel entry in img_ascii_lcd_matches

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@osg.samsung.com>]

Hello Dmitry,

On 03/06/2017 04:40 PM, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:58:04PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> Hello Paul,
>>
>> On 03/06/2017 03:54 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
>>> Hi Javier,
>>>
>>> On Monday, 6 March 2017 10:09:09 PST Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>>>> On 02/24/2017 06:56 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
>>>>> On Monday, 20 February 2017 21:39:11 PST Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>>>> The OF device table must be terminated, otherwise we'll be walking past
>>>>>> it and into areas unknown.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This causes KASAN errors reported by 0day kernel testing robot.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>>>>>> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
>>>>>> Fixes: 0cad855fbd08 ("auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: driver for simple
>>>>>> ASCII...") Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
>>>>>
>>>>> An essentially identical patch was already submitted over here:
>>>>>
>>>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9493973/
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm not sure how it ought to get into mainline - since the driver went
>>>>> through the MIPS tree perhaps this fix can too?
>>>>
>>>> Do you know who should I ping about it? It has been posted a couple of
>>>> months ago.
>>>
>>> If it can go through the MIPS tree that would be Ralf (who I copied 
>>> previously). If not then it's Miguel as auxdisplay maintainer.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, Thanks for your help. I just asked in case MAINTAINERS wasn't up-to-date
>> since the patches were posted a long time ago and had no feedback.
> 
> Maybe we could get akpm pick it up?
> 

Good idea, I'll re-send with akpm to cc so he can pick them.

> Thanks.
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America