Messages in this thread |  | | | From | Bodo Eggert <> | | Subject | Re: PROBLEM: four bttv tuners in one PC crashed | | Date | Sat, 11 Mar 2006 11:08:25 +0100 |
Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr> wrote:
>> The bttv driver/chip seems to cause random memory corruption sometimes, >> processes will just start dying... > > There is a known buffer overflow in the bttv driver (when using > grabdisplay). The fix is waiting on an audit of the rest of the > bttv (and similar) code, since it looks like the same mistake > occurs in several places.
Can you give me a hint on where exactly to shoot at? I'n still hoping it's not my VIA board giving me trouble (corrupting the first four bytes of a semi-random page). -- Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren. - 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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