Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing sentinel entry in img_ascii_lcd_matches
From: Dmitry Torokhov
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 14:49:07 EST
On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 03:58:04PM -0300, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> Hello Paul,
>
> On 03/06/2017 03:54 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> > Hi Javier,
> >
> > On Monday, 6 March 2017 10:09:09 PST Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> >> On 02/24/2017 06:56 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> >>> 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.
> >
> > If it can go through the MIPS tree that would be Ralf (who I copied
> > previously). If not then it's Miguel as auxdisplay maintainer.
> >
>
> Ok, Thanks for your help. I just asked in case MAINTAINERS wasn't up-to-date
> since the patches were posted a long time ago and had no feedback.
Maybe we could get akpm pick it up?
Thanks.
--
Dmitry