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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: eich@pdx.freedesktop.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	airlied@linux.ie
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: [03/11] drm missing memset can crash X server..
Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2005 15:08:14 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050310230814.GD22112@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050310230519.GA22112@kroah.com>

-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let us know.

------------------


Egbert Eich reported a bug 2673 on bugs.freedesktop.org and tracked it
down to a missing memset in the setversion ioctl, this causes X server
crashes...

From: Egbert Eich <eich@pdx.freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

diff -Nru a/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c
--- a/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c	2005-03-09 10:53:42 +11:00
+++ b/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c	2005-03-09 10:53:43 +11:00
@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@

 	DRM_COPY_FROM_USER_IOCTL(sv, argp, sizeof(sv));

+	memset(&version, 0, sizeof(version));
+
 	dev->driver->version(&version);
 	retv.drm_di_major = DRM_IF_MAJOR;
 	retv.drm_di_minor = DRM_IF_MINOR;


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-10 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-03-10 23:05 [00/11] -stable review Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:07 ` [01/11] fix amd64 2.6.11 oops on modprobe (saa7110) Greg KH
2005-03-11  1:37   ` Josh Boyer
2005-03-11  7:57     ` Greg KH
2005-03-11  9:13       ` Jean Delvare
2005-03-11 16:39         ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2005-03-10 23:08 ` [02/11] cramfs: small stat(2) fix Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2005-03-10 23:08 ` [04/11] ppc32: Compilation fixes for Ebony, Luan and Ocotea Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:08 ` [05/11] Fix i2c messsage flags in video drivers Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:08 ` [06/11] [TCP]: Put back tcp_timer_bug_msg[] symbol export Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:20   ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-03-10 23:47     ` David S. Miller
2005-03-10 23:08 ` [07/11] ppc32: trivial fix for e500 oprofile build Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:09 ` [08/11] PCI-E: fix hotplug double free Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:09 ` [09/11] r8169: receive descriptor length fix Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:09 ` [10/11] sis900 kernel oops fix Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:09 ` [11/11] [VIA RHINE] older chips oops on shutdown Greg KH
2005-03-10 23:15 ` [stable] [00/11] -stable review Chris Wright
2005-03-10 23:18   ` Greg KH

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