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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2] misc: fix unterminated *_device_id lists
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2007 01:09:06 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46E8C5F2.4080009@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070913044504.GP8183@outflux.net>

Kees Cook wrote:
> Fixes drivers that do not correctly terminate their *_device_id lists.
> This results in garbage being spewed into modules.pcimap when the module
> happens to not have 28 NULL bytes following the table, and/or the last PCI
> ID is actually truncated from the table when calculating the modules.alias
> PCI aliases, causing those unfortunate device IDs to not auto-load.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
> ---
> Re-send, using recommended list termination code-style.
> Diff is against 2.6.23-rc6.

ACK



      reply	other threads:[~2007-09-13  5:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-13  0:47 [PATCH] usb: fix unterminated usn_device_id lists Kees Cook
2007-09-13  1:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-13  3:54   ` Kees Cook
2007-09-13  4:02     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-09-13  4:45       ` [PATCHv2] misc: fix unterminated *_device_id lists Kees Cook
2007-09-13  5:09         ` Jeff Garzik [this message]

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