Re: Incorrect size checks on mmap() for sysfs PCI resource filesis breaking X?

[Darrick J. Wong]

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 05:53:35PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Darrick J. Wong <djwong@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just loaded 2.6.37-rc2 on my machines, and I noticed that X no longer starts.
> > Running an strace of the X server shows that it's doing this:
> 
> Can you poinpoint when it went wrong? does 2.6.36 work okay?

Yes, 2.6.36 is ok.  2.6.37-rc1 was ok too.

> Just trying to figure out where the regression arrived.

Looks like it's commit 3b519e4ea618b6943a82931630872907f9ac2c2b which went in
11 Nov 2010.  I just submitted a patch that fixes it, at least for me.

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