Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2011-06-06

Re: [Patch 1/2] Fix use-after-free by vga16fb on rmmod

From: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
Date: 2011-06-02 18:18:57

Hi Paul,

On Tue, 24 May 2011 Bruno Prémont [off-list ref] wrote:
Since fb_info is now refcounted and thus may get freed at any time it
gets unregistered module unloading will try to unregister framebuffer
as stored in platform data on probe though this pointer may
be stale.

Cleanup platform data on framebuffer release.

CC: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org>
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This should also go into 2.6.39 stable as it didn't make it into 2.6.39
with the rest of fb_info refcounting work.

This comes from
  [2.6.39-rc2, framebuffer] use after free oops
     ...
       [PATCH 0/2] fbcon sanity
thread
Any chance of applying these two patches?

I've had no feedback from you on them and they don't show up in your tree.

Bruno
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