Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing sentinel entry in img_ascii_lcd_matches

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 13:15:39 EST


Hello Paul,

On 02/24/2017 06:56 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Dmitry,
>
> On Monday, 20 February 2017 21:39:11 PST Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>> The OF device table must be terminated, otherwise we'll be walking past
>> it and into areas unknown.
>>
>> This causes KASAN errors reported by 0day kernel testing robot.
>>
>> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>> Fixes: 0cad855fbd08 ("auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: driver for simple
>> ASCII...") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> An essentially identical patch was already submitted over here:
>
> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9493973/
>
> I'm not sure how it ought to get into mainline - since the driver went through
> the MIPS tree perhaps this fix can too?
>

Do you know who should I ping about it? It has been posted a couple of months
ago.

> Thanks,
> Paul
>

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America