[PATCH] drm missing memset can crash X server...

[Dave Airlie]

Egbert Eich reported a bug 2673 on bugs.freedesktop.org and tracked it
down to a missing memset in the setversion ioctl, this causes X server
crashes so I would like to see the fix in a 2.6.11.x tree if possible..

Regards,
Dave.

-- 
David Airlie, Software Engineer
http://www.skynet.ie/~airlied / airlied at skynet.ie
Linux kernel - DRI, VAX / pam_smb / ILUG

diff -Nru a/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c
--- a/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c	2005-03-09 10:53:42 +11:00
+++ b/drivers/char/drm/drm_ioctl.c	2005-03-09 10:53:43 +11:00
@@ -326,6 +326,8 @@

 	DRM_COPY_FROM_USER_IOCTL(sv, argp, sizeof(sv));

+	memset(&version, 0, sizeof(version));
+
 	dev->driver->version(&version);
 	retv.drm_di_major = DRM_IF_MAJOR;
 	retv.drm_di_minor = DRM_IF_MINOR;
-
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