From: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@gmail.com>
To: linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Cc: "Jenkins, Clive" <Clive.Jenkins@xerox.com>
Subject: Re: write() to zero length framebuffer -- bug report
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:36:35 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <439EEA83.90204@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <35786B99AB3FDC45A8215724617919736D918C@gbrwgceumf01.eu.xerox.net>
Jenkins, Clive wrote:
> In the vanilla 2.4.20 kernel version of fbmem.c, the function
> fb_write() returns zero if the framebuffer size (fix.smem_size)
> is zero, instead of -ENOSPC. This causes a normal user program
> to loop forever.
>
> Looking at the code for vanilla 2.6.10 and 2.6.11, the situation
> is complicated by the new info.screen_size and kmalloc-ing a
> buffer, but the bug is still there.
Thank you. Will fix.
Tony
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2005-12-13 14:33 write() to zero length framebuffer -- bug report Jenkins, Clive
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