Re: PATCH: 2.6.7-rc3 drivers/char/drm/gamma_dma.c: several user/kernelpointer bugs

[Dave Airlie]

I'll fix this in the DRM bk tree and push to Linus...

Dave.

On Thu, 10 Jun 2004 viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 09, 2004 at 03:53:40PM -0700, Robert T. Johnson wrote:
> > gamma_dma_priority and gamma_dma_send_buffers both deref d->send_indices
> > and/or d->send_sizes.  When these functions are called from gamma_dma,
> > these pointers are user pointers and are thus not safe to deref.  This patch
> > copies over the pointers inside gamma_dma_priority and
> > gamma_dma_send_buffers.  Let me know if you have any questions or if I've
> > made a mistake.
>
> ACK.
>
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