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Author	SHA1	Message	Date
Patrick McManus	346e399b2a	[PATCH] intelfb section fix On Nov 16 2004 a change to intelfbdrv.c was commited (as part of 0.9.2 it looks like) that added __initdata to all of the module param variables that seems to create the opportunity for an oops. I've recently been chasing an OOPS (http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111552250920370&w=2) I created by reading every file on the /sys file system and I've traced it back to this code in the intelfbdrv. Though I had root privs in my initial problem report, it turns out they are un-necessary to generate the oops - all you've got to do is "cat /sys/module/intelfb/parameters/mode" enough times and eventually it will oops. This is because sysfs automatically exports all module_param declarations to the sysfs file system.. which means those variables can be dynamically evaluated at any later time, which of course means marking them __initdata is a bad idea ;).. when they happen to be char *'s it is an especially bad idea ;). Applying the patch below clears up the OOPS for me. Signed-off-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>	20 years ago
Adrian Bunk	14c6f52f60	[PATCH] intelfb: Remove intelfbdrv.h Ingo Oeser noticed that all that intelfbdrv.h contains are prototypes for static functions - and such prototypes don't belong into header files. This patch therefore removes drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.h and moves the prototypes to intelfbdrv.c . Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>	20 years ago
Linus Torvalds	1da177e4c3	Linux-2.6.12-rc2 Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!	20 years ago

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Patrick McManus

346e399b2a

[PATCH] intelfb section fix

On Nov 16 2004 a change to intelfbdrv.c was commited (as part of 0.9.2 it
looks like) that added __initdata to all of the module param variables that
seems to create the opportunity for an oops.

I've recently been chasing an OOPS
(http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111552250920370&w=2) I
created by reading every file on the /sys file system and I've traced it
back to this code in the intelfbdrv.  Though I had root privs in my initial
problem report, it turns out they are un-necessary to generate the oops -
all you've got to do is "cat /sys/module/intelfb/parameters/mode" enough
times and eventually it will oops.

This is because sysfs automatically exports all module_param declarations
to the sysfs file system..  which means those variables can be dynamically
evaluated at any later time, which of course means marking them __initdata
is a bad idea ;)..  when they happen to be char *'s it is an especially bad
idea ;).

Applying the patch below clears up the OOPS for me.

Signed-off-by: Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

20 years ago

Adrian Bunk

14c6f52f60

[PATCH] intelfb: Remove intelfbdrv.h

Ingo Oeser noticed that all that intelfbdrv.h contains are prototypes for
static functions - and such prototypes don't belong into header files.

This patch therefore removes drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.h and moves the
prototypes to intelfbdrv.c .

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

20 years ago

Linus Torvalds

1da177e4c3

Linux-2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

20 years ago

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