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

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Message-ID: <20080820092806.ZZRA012@mailhub.coreip.homeip.net>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:57 -0400
From:	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Justin Mattock <justinmattock@...il.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-input@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511,

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 12:00:40AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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;
> > 
> 
> (cc's added)
> 

You can just copy the updated file manually into
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/.

I tried rebuilding synaptics from here:

git://anongit.freedesktop.org/git/xorg/driver/xf86-input-synaptics

but unfortunately it fails with some automake crap that I don't have
time to trace through at the moment.

-- 
Dmitry
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