[PATCH 0/1] [Hardy -> Maverick] vesafb initialisation fix

Andy Whitcroft apw at canonical.com
Thu Jul 29 08:42:20 UTC 2010


Since dapper we have carries a vesafb modularisation patch.  This allows
us to make vesafb a module so we can control its insertion.  When this
patch was rolled forward somewhere between dapper and hardy part of the
patch was lost.  Such that we do not allocate sufficient memory for the
local info structure.  This can lead to memory corruption and will lead
to a panic on unload of the module.

This patch pulls up the missing segment of the patch.  This is very likely
applicable to all live releases between Hardy and Maverick inclusive.

-apw

Andy Whitcroft (1):
  UBUNTU: SAUCE: (no-up) Modularize vesafb -- fix initialisation

 drivers/video/vesafb.c |   14 +++++++-------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)





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