This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
Input: synaptics - fix crash in synaptics_module_init()
to the 2.6.38-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
input-synaptics-fix-crash-in-synaptics_module_init.patch
and it can be found in the queue-2.6.38 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From 708748670c7c6dd5bd3b141473086e6937e72737 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:01:58 -0700
Subject: Input: synaptics - fix crash in synaptics_module_init()
From: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
commit 708748670c7c6dd5bd3b141473086e6937e72737 upstream.
'struct dmi_system_id' arrays must always have a terminator to keep
dmi_check_system() from looking at data (and possibly crashing) it
isn't supposed to look at.
The issue went unnoticed until ef8313bb1a22e7d2125d9d758aa8a81f1de91d81,
but was introduced about a year earlier with
7705d548cbe33f18ea7713b9a07aa11047aaeca4 (which also similarly changed
lifebook.c, but the problem there got eliminated shortly afterwards).
The first hunk therefore is a stable candidate back to 2.6.33, while
the full change is needed only on 2.6.38.
Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
+++ b/drivers/input/mouse/synaptics.c
@@ -836,8 +836,8 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __init
},
},
- { }
#endif
+ { }
};
static bool broken_olpc_ec;
@@ -851,8 +851,8 @@ static const struct dmi_system_id __init
DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "XO"),
},
},
- { }
#endif
+ { }
};
void __init synaptics_module_init(void)
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-2.6.38/input-synaptics-fix-crash-in-synaptics_module_init.patch
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