Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Aug 2012 08:04:05 -0700 (PDT) | From | Jakob Bornecrantz <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] drm: stop vmgfx driver explosion |
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----- Original Message ----- > From: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> > > If you do a page flip with no flags set then event is NULL. If event > is NULL then the vmw_gfx driver likes to go digging into NULL and > extracts NULL->base.file_priv. > > On a modern kernel with NULL mapping protection it's just another > oops, without it there are some "intriguing" possibilities. > > What it should do is an open question but that for the driver owners > to sort out. > > Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Thanks Alan!
Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz <jakob@vmware.com>
I think CC stable is in order.
Cheers, Jakob.
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