linux-kernel - Re: Incorrect size checks on mmap() for sysfs PCI resource files is breaking X?

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Message-ID: <AANLkTin16PNdYh61Zhy=5ttMrL-VuSYYkCRybXo6wFo=@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 16 Nov 2010 17:53:35 +1000
From:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>
To:	djwong@...ibm.com
Cc:	Martin Wilck <martin.wilck@...fujitsu.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>
Subject: Re: Incorrect size checks on mmap() for sysfs PCI resource files is
 breaking X?

On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 5:22 PM, Darrick J. Wong <djwong@...ibm.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I just loaded 2.6.37-rc2 on my machines, and I noticed that X no longer starts.
> Running an strace of the X server shows that it's doing this:

Can you poinpoint when it went wrong? does 2.6.36 work okay?

Just trying to figure out where the regression arrived.

Dave.
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