From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: James Simmons Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.24 matroxfb memory corruption Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:12:49 -0700 (PDT) Sender: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: <20020630002834.GG25118@ppc.vc.cvut.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Received: from www.transvirtual.com ([206.14.214.140]) by usw-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Cipher TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 17P4jM-0003j7-00 for ; Mon, 01 Jul 2002 10:12:52 -0700 In-Reply-To: <20020630002834.GG25118@ppc.vc.cvut.cz> Errors-To: linux-fbdev-devel-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Petr Vandrovec Cc: torvalds@transmeta.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > do_install_cmap(), he blindly changed also matroxfb, which happily > uses fbcon.currcon == -1. This caused memory corruption because of > memory before fb_display[] array was overwritten. > Default do_install_cmap() also installed invalid default color map > in some matroxfb resolutions. Not all world have >= 4bpp. Applied to BK tree. ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf