On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:20:59AM +0100, Chris Wilson wrote: > In > > commit edc3d8848dc9fe2a470316363dab8ef211d77e01 > Author: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]> > Date: Thu May 23 13:55:35 2013 +0300 > > drm/i915: avoid big kmallocs on reading error state > > we introduce a two-pass mechanism for splitting long strings being > formatted into the error-state. The first pass finds the length, and the > second pass emits the right portion of the string into the accumulation > buffer. Unfortunately we use the same va_list for both passes, resulting > in the second pass reading garbage off the end of the argument list. As > the two passes are only used for boundaries between read() calls, the > corruption is only rarely seen. > > This fixes the root cause behind > > commit baf27f9b17bf2f369f3865e38c41d2163e8d815d > Author: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > Date: Sat Jun 29 23:26:50 2013 +0100 > > drm/i915: Break up the large vsnprintf() in print_error_buffers() > > Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <[email protected]> > Cc: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]> > Cc: [email protected]
Picked up for -fixes, thanks for the patch. -Daniel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation +41 (0) 79 365 57 48 - http://blog.ffwll.ch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
