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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, justinmattock@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isight_firmware: Avoid crash on loading invalid firmware
Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2008 12:35:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080606123511.38ffbdde.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080606192135.GA16727@srcf.ucam.org>

On Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:21:35 +0100
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

> Different tools generate slightly different formats of the isight 
> firmware. Ensure that the firmware buffer is not overrun, while still 
> ensuring that the correct amount of data is written if trailing data is 
> prseent.

It would have been nice to have mentioned this Justin Maddock fellow
in the changelog.


  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-06 19:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-04 19:13 [ 88.628451] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at f8dbf000 "isight_firmware" Justin Mattock
2008-06-06  7:26 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06  8:37   ` Justin Mattock
2008-06-06 12:11     ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-06 14:24       ` Justin Mattock
2008-06-06 18:07       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-06 18:10         ` Justin Mattock
2008-06-06 18:38           ` Justin Mattock
2008-06-06 18:55             ` Greg KH
2008-06-06 19:21               ` [PATCH] isight_firmware: Avoid crash on loading invalid firmware Matthew Garrett
2008-06-06 19:35                 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2008-06-06 19:48                   ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-06 21:14                     ` Justin Mattock
2008-06-06 21:50                       ` Matthew Garrett
2008-06-06 22:20                         ` Justin Mattock
2008-06-07  1:05                     ` Johannes Weiner
2008-06-07  2:38                       ` Justin Mattock

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