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

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:59:59 -0800
From:	"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@...ibm.com>
To:	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.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 05:53:35PM +1000, Dave Airlie wrote:
> 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?

Yes, 2.6.36 is ok.  2.6.37-rc1 was ok too.

> Just trying to figure out where the regression arrived.

Looks like it's commit 3b519e4ea618b6943a82931630872907f9ac2c2b which went in
11 Nov 2010.  I just submitted a patch that fixes it, at least for me.

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