From: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: stop vmgfx driver explosion
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:04:05 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <790319256.19256264.1345475045195.JavaMail.root@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120820144438.6255.39723.stgit@localhost.localdomain>
----- Original Message -----
> From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
>
> If you do a page flip with no flags set then event is NULL. If event
> is NULL then the vmw_gfx driver likes to go digging into NULL and
> extracts NULL->base.file_priv.
>
> On a modern kernel with NULL mapping protection it's just another
> oops, without it there are some "intriguing" possibilities.
>
> What it should do is an open question but that for the driver owners
> to sort out.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Thanks Alan!
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com>
I think CC stable is in order.
Cheers, Jakob.
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2012-08-20 14:44 [PATCH] drm: stop vmgfx driver explosion Alan Cox
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