On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 05:31:53PM -0600, Marc Schwartz (via MN) wrote: > >From kernel-2.6.12-1.1456_FC4: > > $ cat /proc/i8k > 1.0 A38 ? 54 -22 1 -22 79260 -1 2 > > > >From kernel-2.6.14-1.1633_FC4: > > $ cat /proc/i8k > 1.0 A38 52 -22 1 -22 77340 -1 2 Ok, that looks like unintentional breakage. I've brought this up upstream. Will try and get any resulting fix backported to FC4 when that appears. > What is different is the field that should show the service tag ID for > the laptop. This is the '?' in the first instance (3rd field) and > appears to be missing in the second. > > This would perhaps explain the SEGFAULT, since in reviewing the code in > i8krellm.c for the __i8k_get_proc_info() function, there are a series of > strcpy's, parsing the fields from the result of getting the /proc/i8k > info. That code is really quite icky, and screams "scanf" to me. Whilst that kernel interface *shouldnt* change, things like this do happen, and it could have taken defensive action instead of being as fragile as it is. Dave -- fedora-test-list mailing list fedora-test-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-test-list