From: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Battery-related regression between 2.6.17-git3 and 2.6.17-git6
Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 16:17:50 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <44AC2C7E.9070007@lwfinger.net> (raw)
On Tue, 2006-07-04 at 14:48 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 04, 2006 at 01:55:43PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>
>> I'm not sure what exactly happens there, but I think hal crashes due to
>> a buffer overflow.
>
> Yes, that looks like what is happening. Perhaps one of the HAL
> developers can point you at a patch that you can apply to your version
> of HAL to get it working.
>
> Either way, this is not a kernel bug, as it could have happened with any
> very long depth device tree, you were just lucky it didn't happen
> sooner.
It is definitely a buffer overflow in hald. I reproduced the problem by a 'hald --daemon=no'
command. On my SuSE 10.0 system, the problem was fixed by downloading and installing hal-0.5.7.
Larry
next reply other threads:[~2006-07-05 21:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-07-05 21:17 Larry Finger [this message]
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2006-07-01 22:21 Battery-related regression between 2.6.17-git3 and 2.6.17-git6 Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-02 9:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-03 11:16 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-03 18:00 ` Greg KH
2006-07-03 19:39 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-03 19:44 ` Greg KH
2006-07-03 20:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-03 20:45 ` Greg KH
2006-07-04 11:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-07-04 21:48 ` Greg KH
2006-07-04 22:14 ` Kay Sievers
2006-07-05 2:51 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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