- 11 2月, 2010 1 次提交
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由 Andy Getzendanner 提交于
This patch corrects a userspace pointer dereference in the VGA arbiter in 2.6.32.1. copy_from_user() is used at line 822 to copy the contents of buf into kbuf, but a call to strncmp() on line 964 uses buf rather than kbuf. This problem led to a GPF in strncmp() when X was started on my x86_32 systems. X triggered the behavior with a write of "target PCI:0000:01:00.0" to /dev/vga_arbiter. The patch has been tested against 2.6.32.1 and observed to correct the GPF observed when starting X or manually writing the string "target PCI:0000:01:00.0" to /dev/vga_arbiter. Signed-off-by: NAndy Getzendanner <james.getzendanner@students.olin.edu> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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- 10 9月, 2009 2 次提交
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由 Dave Airlie 提交于
Fix some warnings reported in linux-next + also cleanup some comment errors noticed by Pekka Paalanen. Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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由 Benjamin Herrenschmidt 提交于
Background: Graphic devices are accessed through ranges in I/O or memory space. While most modern devices allow relocation of such ranges, some "Legacy" VGA devices implemented on PCI will typically have the same "hard-decoded" addresses as they did on ISA. For more details see "PCI Bus Binding to IEEE Std 1275-1994 Standard for Boot (Initialization Configuration) Firmware Revision 2.1" Section 7, Legacy Devices. The Resource Access Control (RAC) module inside the X server currently does the task of arbitration when more than one legacy device co-exists on the same machine. But the problem happens when these devices are trying to be accessed by different userspace clients (e.g. two server in parallel). Their address assignments conflict. Therefore an arbitration scheme _outside_ of the X server is needed to control the sharing of these resources. This document introduces the operation of the VGA arbiter implemented for Linux kernel. Signed-off-by: NBenjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: NTiago Vignatti <tiago.vignatti@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: NDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NJesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
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