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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 16:12:54 -0800 From: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> To: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@...ssonline.ch> Cc: dmitry.torokhov@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, daniel.ritz@....ch, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] usbtouchscreen: fix buffer overflow, make more egalax work On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:05:10 +0100 Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz-ml@...ssonline.ch> wrote: > [PATCH] usbtouchscreen: fix buffer overflow, make more egalax work > > fixes a buffer overflow in mutli-packet handling code. the overflow can only > happen with eGalax devices and is even there very unlikely (only non-report > packet are affected any only when truncated after the first byte). > > it also changes the mutli-packet handling code not to drop unknown packets, > but rather just drop one byte. this allows synchronizing on report packets > in the data stream. it's required for some egalax devices to work at all. > > also removes the pointless 'flags' member of the device struct and sets the > version number to 0.6. and some minor cleanups. > Sentences start with a capital letter, please. The term "buffer overflow" tends to get people's juices flowing, yet this patch has been languishing for a week. I'll queue it up as for-2.6.24-unless-someone-tells-me-otherwise, thanks. (After having capitalised the sentences, grr.) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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