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
next prev parent 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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