On Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:10:00 -0400 Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hans Verkuil wrote: > > On Sunday 20 April 2008 13:27:36 Alan Cox wrote: > > > >> Frank Bennett reported that ivtv was causing skype to crash. With > >> help from one of their developers he showed it was a kernel problem. > >> VIDIOCGCAP copies a name into a fixed length buffer - ivtv uses names > >> that are too long and does not truncate them so corrupts a few bytes > >> of the app data area. > >> > >> Possibly the names also want trimming but for now this should fix the > >> corruption case. > >> > > > > Ouch, nasty one. > > > > Mauro, can you apply this patch to the v4l-dvb master? > > > > Mike, this one should obviously go into a 2.6.25 dot-release, and I > > think also to a 2.6.24 dot-release. > > > > Frank, thank you for reporting this! > > > > Hans > > > > Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> In this case, it should be reviewed-by. I should be sending this soon to Linus. Cheers, Mauro _______________________________________________ ivtv-devel mailing list [email protected] http://ivtvdriver.org/mailman/listinfo/ivtv-devel
