Re: PATCH to soundcard.c (was: Sound driver security hole?)

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 2 Feb 1998 19:24:32 +0000 (GMT)

> Right, I already said that I did not like it but
> nobody really suggested a better alternative which is
> local to the device driver.

I've been away so I've not had time to look

> A little off subject, I also said that fbmem.c may have
> a similar problem but it is not even in the Makefile, and
> surely cannot work after character device calls were
> changed (sometime near Linux 2.1.60).

fbmem.c may be old in the kernel you have relative to the master m68K
tree its from.

> Does anyone plan to use fbmem.c at all?

All the m68K ports