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

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Message-ID: <dd18b0c30808200931x2aea0dc6t2986b7a4c3daeff9@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Wed, 20 Aug 2008 09:31:07 -0700
From:	"Justin Mattock" <justinmattock@...il.com>
To:	"Dmitry Torokhov" <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
Cc:	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"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 6:31 AM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@...il.com> wrote:
> 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
>

Cool, I'll have a try at it again.
What I did was copy /usr/lib/X11R6/lib/modules/input/synaptics_drv.o
to /usr/lib/xorg/modules/input/   then renamed it to synaptics_drv.so
the module loads but is broken.  When given time today I'll try and
reinstall, and see if I can get it working.


-- 
Justin P. Mattock
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