Re: [PATCH] fix crash in synaptics_module_init()

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On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 05:05:38PM +0100, Jan Beulich wrote:
> 'struct dmi_system_id' arrays must always have a terminator to keep
> dmi_check_system() from looking at data (and possibly crashing) it
> isn't supposed to look at.
> 
> The issue went unnoticed until ef8313bb1a22e7d2125d9d758aa8a81f1de91d81,
> but was introduced about a year earlier with
> 7705d548cbe33f18ea7713b9a07aa11047aaeca4 (which also similarly changed
> lifebook.c, but the problem there got eliminated shortly afterwards).
> 
> The first hunk therefore is a stable candidate back to 2.6.33, while
> the full change is needed only on 2.6.38.
> 

Applied, thanks Jan.

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Dmitry
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