linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing sentinel entry in img_ascii_lcd

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Date:   Mon, 6 Mar 2017 15:58:04 -0300
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javier@....samsung.com>
To:     Paul Burton <paul.burton@...tec.com>
Cc:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <miguel.ojeda.sandonis@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing sentinel entry in
 img_ascii_lcd_matches

Hello Paul,

On 03/06/2017 03:54 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Javier,
> 
> On Monday, 6 March 2017 10:09:09 PST Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 02/24/2017 06:56 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
>>> On Monday, 20 February 2017 21:39:11 PST Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>> The OF device table must be terminated, otherwise we'll be walking past
>>>> it and into areas unknown.
>>>>
>>>> This causes KASAN errors reported by 0day kernel testing robot.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>>>> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
>>>> Fixes: 0cad855fbd08 ("auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: driver for simple
>>>> ASCII...") Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
>>>
>>> An essentially identical patch was already submitted over here:
>>>
>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9493973/
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how it ought to get into mainline - since the driver went
>>> through the MIPS tree perhaps this fix can too?
>>
>> Do you know who should I ping about it? It has been posted a couple of
>> months ago.
> 
> If it can go through the MIPS tree that would be Ralf (who I copied 
> previously). If not then it's Miguel as auxdisplay maintainer.
>

Ok, Thanks for your help. I just asked in case MAINTAINERS wasn't up-to-date
since the patches were posted a long time ago and had no feedback.
 
> Thanks,
>     Paul
> 

Best regards,
-- 
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America