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| author | Patrick McManus <mcmanus@ducksong.com> | 2005-05-29 00:51:46 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org> | 2005-05-29 01:46:09 +0200 |
| commit | 346e399b2a3a01b323fa74a0937e2d855479833b (patch) | |
| tree | b71ee6ae6ac00be7a932f578fbbd546d9df25b39 /drivers/video/intelfb | |
| parent | [PATCH] fix jumpy mouse cursor on console (diff) | |
| download | linux-346e399b2a3a01b323fa74a0937e2d855479833b.tar.xz linux-346e399b2a3a01b323fa74a0937e2d855479833b.zip | |
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/intelfb')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c b/drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c index 549e22939260..25f9a9a65c24 100644 --- a/drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c +++ b/drivers/video/intelfb/intelfbdrv.c @@ -228,17 +228,17 @@ MODULE_DESCRIPTION( MODULE_LICENSE("Dual BSD/GPL"); MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, intelfb_pci_table); -static int accel __initdata = 1; -static int vram __initdata = 4; -static int hwcursor __initdata = 1; -static int mtrr __initdata = 1; -static int fixed __initdata = 0; -static int noinit __initdata = 0; -static int noregister __initdata = 0; -static int probeonly __initdata = 0; -static int idonly __initdata = 0; -static int bailearly __initdata = 0; -static char *mode __initdata = NULL; +static int accel = 1; +static int vram = 4; +static int hwcursor = 1; +static int mtrr = 1; +static int fixed = 0; +static int noinit = 0; +static int noregister = 0; +static int probeonly = 0; +static int idonly = 0; +static int bailearly = 0; +static char *mode = NULL; module_param(accel, bool, S_IRUGO); MODULE_PARM_DESC(accel, "Enable console acceleration"); |