Re: [PATCH] dvb-core: fix initialization of feeds list in demux filter (Was: Videotext application crashes the kernel due to DVB-demux patch)

[hermann pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de>]

Am Dienstag, den 09.02.2010, 09:38 +0100 schrieb Chicken Shack:
> Am Dienstag, den 09.02.2010, 01:53 +0100 schrieb hermann pitton:
> > Am Montag, den 08.02.2010, 08:14 -0800 schrieb Linus Torvalds:
> > > 
> > > On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Chicken Shack wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > This is a SCANDAL, not fun! This is SCANDALOUS!
> > > 
> > > I agree that this whole thread has been totally inappropriate from 
> > > beginning to end. 
> > 
> > The initial problem was, how to find such software producing that oops
> > at all.
> 
> Pure crap! Because, as I stated already, you are too lazy to read the
> context.
> 
> Proofs:
> 
> 1. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg15182.html
> 
> This guy was compeletely ignored, although he announced a kernel bug /
> security risk. Neither is he banned somewhere, nor are there other ifs
> or whatevers to justify just ignoring him.
> Also the utmost insane Torvalds-scapegoat-theory dowes not work here at
> all. This guy reported a problem, and noone except me listened: Period!
> 
> 2. http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-media/msg15356.html
> 
> This one the bums here could not ignore at all, because the noise around
> was already so loud that ignoring was no longer possible.
> 
> 
> MOST IMPORTANT: NONE of them had my overworked version.
> And I do not know to which one they were referring to.
> There is one at:
> 
> 1. http://pluto.blackbone-ev.de/v1/AleVT%20mit%20DVB-T.html
> 
> and there is one at:
> 
> 
> 2. http://packages.debian.org/sid/alevt
> 
> 
> BOTH are DVB compatible. So with both YOU CAN identify the kernel
> security risk / the oops.
> 
> So as long as you do not know the facts, better shut up and stay quiet,
> stupid!
> 
> There's no need to comment your spit-licking that follows.
> Everyone knows who you moron are by evaluating your stupid rant, the sum
> of self-invented lies.
> 
> CS
> 

For the record.

Uwe is right, the bug is already at the above link

pluto.blackbone-ev.de

coming with its own headers.

It is for sure not in any Fedora and he asked only for DVB-S testers, IIRC.

I'm sorry to have tested anything at all in such a crappy way ...

Cheers,
Hermann