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Hi Bodo, > > This patch fixes the strange crashes I was seeing after using > > my bttv card to watch television. They were caused by a > > buffer overflow in bttv_risc_packed. > > <snip> > > Would these errors e.g. cause a corruption of exactly four bytes at the start > of random pages? I don't think so. It should cause either no corruption or at least 8 bytes worth (it does pairs of 4 byte writes). What you might see is an Oops when it tries to write the first 4 bytes at the start of a page, because of a page fault, but then the write doesn't happen and there is no corruption... Best wishes, Duncan. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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