[PATCH upstream for stable 1/8] staging: vt6656: [BUG] out of bound array reference in RFbSetPower.

Herton Ronaldo Krzesinski herton.krzesinski at canonical.com
Thu Jan 10 02:43:42 UTC 2013


On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 12:47:15PM +0000, Malcolm Priestley wrote:
> 
> upstream commit 
> ab1dd9963137a1e122004d5378a581bf16ae9bc8
> 
> Tested on kernels 2.6.35, 3.0, 3.2, 3.5 & 3.7
> 
> This upstream commit and the ones in patch 2 & 3 are critical for boot
> dead lock on 64 bit systems, the remaining commits bring the driver up.
> 
> staging: vt6656: [BUG] out of bound array reference in RFbSetPower.
>     
> Calling RFbSetPower with uCH zero value will cause out of bound array reference.
>     
> This causes 64 bit kernels to oops on boot.
>     
> Note: Driver does not function on 64 bit kernels and should be
> blacklisted on them.
> 
> Cc: stable at kernel.org  # 2.6.35+    
> Signed-off-by: Malcolm Priestley <tvboxspy at gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>

Queued all except 2/8 and 3/8 for reasons already noted, thanks.

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Herton




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