Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 23 Apr 2004 09:14:22 +0100 (BST) | From | Jim Hague <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH]: Fix NULL-ptr dereference in pm2fb_probe |
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On 23-Apr-2004 Patrick McHardy wrote: > This patch fixes a NULL-pointer dereference in pm2fb_probe. > The memset sets info->par to 0, it is dereferenced shortly > afterwards. framebuffer_alloc already initializes the memory > to 0, so it can simply be removed.
Thanks for your work. We've overlapped on this one, I'm afraid - a couple of days ago I sent a patch off to James and the fbdev list that addresses this and a bug in pm2fb_blank().
Out of interest, can I ask if you're running pm2fb and if so on what hardware?
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