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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: fengguang.wu@intel.com
Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, dan.carpenter@oracle.com,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	joe@perches.com, isdn@linux-pingi.de,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isdnloop: fix and simplify isdnloop_init()
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2012 16:21:56 -0700 (PDT)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120802.162156.1853851468137303302.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120802110543.GA21745@localhost>

From: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Aug 2012 19:05:43 +0800

> Fix a buffer overflow bug by removing the revision transform code.
> 
> [   22.016214] isdnloop-ISDN-driver Rev 1.11.6.7 
> [   22.097508] isdnloop: (loop0) virtual card added
> [   22.174400] Kernel panic - not syncing: stack-protector: Kernel stack is corrupted in: ffffffff83244972
> [   22.174400] 
> [   22.436157] Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted 3.5.0-bisect-00018-gfa8bbb1-dirty #129
> [   22.624071] Call Trace:
> [   22.720558]  [<ffffffff832448c3>] ? CallcNew+0x56/0x56
> [   22.815248]  [<ffffffff8222b623>] panic+0x110/0x329
> [   22.914330]  [<ffffffff83244972>] ? isdnloop_init+0xaf/0xb1
> [   23.014800]  [<ffffffff832448c3>] ? CallcNew+0x56/0x56
> [   23.090763]  [<ffffffff8108e24b>] __stack_chk_fail+0x2b/0x30
> [   23.185748]  [<ffffffff83244972>] isdnloop_init+0xaf/0xb1
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com>

The reason the "$Revision ..." prefix is there is so that automated
version control tools will change the string automatically when code
is committed in CVS.

In the GIT era this revision style is obsolete.

Therefore you might as well just delete this crap altogether.

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-02 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-02 11:05 [PATCH] isdnloop: fix and simplify isdnloop_init() Fengguang Wu
2012-08-02 23:21 ` David Miller [this message]
2012-08-03  7:32   ` [PATCH v2] " Fengguang Wu
2012-08-03  8:47     ` Karsten Keil
2012-08-03  8:51     ` David Miller
2012-08-03  9:10       ` [PATCH v3] " Fengguang Wu
2012-08-03 23:53         ` David Miller
     [not found] <20120802040158.GA11860@localhost>
2012-08-02 10:44 ` [PATCH] " Fengguang Wu
2012-08-02 10:56   ` Greg KH
2012-08-02 10:57   ` Dan Carpenter
2012-08-02 11:01     ` Fengguang Wu

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