linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm: fix leak of uninitialized data to userspace

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Date:	Tue, 4 Nov 2008 23:42:31 +0100
From:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	"Greg KH" <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Vegard Nossum" <vegardno@....uio.no>,
	"Dave Airlie" <airlied@...hat.com>,
	"Sitsofe Wheeler" <sitsofe@...oo.com>,
	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm: fix leak of uninitialized data to userspace

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 11:23 PM, Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:17:30PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> * Greg KH <greg@...ah.com> wrote:
>> > What ever happened to this patch?  Did it go into Linus's tree?  If
>> > so, I can't seem to find it :(
>>
>> i'm not doing DRM patches - tip/out-of-tree is for pure out-of-tree
>> hotfixes.
>
> So it goes no where?
>
> Dave, any plan to pick this up and get it to Linus?

For Dave: You may also remove the "completely untested" line of the
original submission and add Sitsofe's Tested-by line:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/11/108

Original patch can be found here:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/10/115

:-)

Thanks,


Vegard

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