linux-kernel - Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

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Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 00:00:40 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
Cc:	"Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org, Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@...l.ru>
Subject: Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

On Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:10:54 -0700 "Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com> wrote:

> I'm noticing:
> evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64
> bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html
> with rc-3 not with rc2.
> Did the patch to synaptics, seems
> my xorg is not reading /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
> only /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/synaptics_drv.so
> is there any easy fix, or do I have to recompile xorg?
> regards;
> 

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