linux-kernel - Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.26-final

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Date:	Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:55:03 +0200
From:	Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	dri-devel@...ts.sf.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [git pull] drm patches for 2.6.26-final

Hi,

Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie> writes:

>> There is also an oops fixer reported in the drm ioctl handler.

>> commit 41ee2ff404ec76194315aeed57ac973b010abe1d
>> Author: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>
>> Date:   Fri Jun 13 15:04:40 2008 +1000
>> 
>>     drm: use drms ioctl cmd not what we get passed from userspace.
>>     
>>     This enforces us to use the drm ioctl types so read/write works correctly and not believe
>>     what userspace tells us.
>>     
>>     It does this hopefully without breaking the drm api.
>>     
>>     Fixes bug from thread: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference (drm_getunique)
>>     
>>     Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@...hat.com>

       Reported-by: Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
       Signed-off-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes@...urebad.de>

That was only a proposal, to which you did not reply at all [1] and just
silently picked it (without the credits).  Not very polite.

	Hannes

[1] http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/6/5/250
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