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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Fix VIDIOCGAP corruption in ivtv
On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:10:00 -0400
Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> wrote:

> Hans Verkuil wrote:
> > On Sunday 20 April 2008 13:27:36 Alan Cox wrote:
> >
> >> Frank Bennett reported that ivtv was causing skype to crash. With
> >> help from one of their developers he showed it was a kernel problem.
> >> VIDIOCGCAP copies a name into a fixed length buffer - ivtv uses names
> >> that are too long and does not truncate them so corrupts a few bytes
> >> of the app data area.
> >>
> >> Possibly the names also want trimming but for now this should fix the
> >> corruption case.
> >>
> >
> > Ouch, nasty one.
> >
> > Mauro, can you apply this patch to the v4l-dvb master?
> >
> > Mike, this one should obviously go into a 2.6.25 dot-release, and I
> > think also to a 2.6.24 dot-release.
> >
> > Frank, thank you for reporting this!
> >
> > Hans
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
> >
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>

In this case, it should be reviewed-by.

I should be sending this soon to Linus.

Cheers,
Mauro


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