From: Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, greg@kroah.com,
       justinmattock@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] isight_firmware: Avoid crash on loading invalid firmware
References: <dd18b0c30806041213x45b7efdfo42de9b214a7ce9df@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080606002601.a0f6c47c.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
	<dd18b0c30806060137j7edc751se364ff21cfc8911b@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080606121136.GA9087@srcf.ucam.org>
	<20080606110711.a9a6a4f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
	<dd18b0c30806061110qd3100b4p1ee9f8ef493a56c6@mail.gmail.com>
	<dd18b0c30806061138h69c87d6am898a4eb409d379e1@mail.gmail.com>
	<20080606185548.GB8576@kroah.com>
	<20080606192135.GA16727@srcf.ucam.org>
	<20080606123511.38ffbdde.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
	<20080606194856.GA17708@srcf.ucam.org>
Date: Sat, 07 Jun 2008 03:05:16 +0200
In-Reply-To: <20080606194856.GA17708@srcf.ucam.org> (Matthew Garrett's message
	of "Fri, 6 Jun 2008 20:48:56 +0100")
Message-ID: <873anq5a2b.fsf@saeurebad.de>
User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux)
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org
Content-Length: 617
Lines: 15

Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> writes:

> Different tools generate slightly different formats of the isight 
> firmware. Ensure that the firmware buffer is not overrun, while still 
> ensuring that the correct amount of data is written if trailing data is 
> preseent. Fixes crash reported by Justin Mattock.

You don't like the word `present', do you? ;)

	Hannes
--
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/