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

Leann Ogasawara leann.ogasawara at canonical.com
Fri Jul 30 00:18:03 UTC 2010


Applied to Maverick linux master.

Thanks,
Leann

On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 09:42 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 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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