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From: "Bruno Prémont" <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
To: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 1/2] Fix use-after-free by vga16fb on rmmod
Date: Thu, 02 Jun 2011 18:18:57 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110602201857.3056aeda@neptune.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110524215917.4b01df45@neptune.home>

Hi Paul,

On Tue, 24 May 2011 Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> wrote:
> Since fb_info is now refcounted and thus may get freed at any time it
> gets unregistered module unloading will try to unregister framebuffer
> as stored in platform data on probe though this pointer may
> be stale.
> 
> Cleanup platform data on framebuffer release.
> 
> CC: stable@kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
> ---
> This should also go into 2.6.39 stable as it didn't make it into 2.6.39
> with the rest of fb_info refcounting work.
> 
> This comes from
>   [2.6.39-rc2, framebuffer] use after free oops
>      ...
>        [PATCH 0/2] fbcon sanity
> thread

Any chance of applying these two patches?

I've had no feedback from you on them and they don't show up in your tree.

Bruno

  reply	other threads:[~2011-06-02 18:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-24 19:59 [Patch 1/2] Fix use-after-free by vga16fb on rmmod Bruno Prémont
2011-06-02 18:18 ` Bruno Prémont [this message]
2011-06-06  3:01 ` Paul Mundt

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