On Wed, 9 Dec 2015 13:24:53 +0300 Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 64 bit CPUs there is a memory corruption bug on probe(). It should > be a u32 pointer instead of an unsigned long pointer or we write past > the end of the setupdata[] array. > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> > Reviewed-by: Hannes Reinecke <hare@xxxxxxxx> > --- > Resending because we have shuffled the code around so the patch needed > to be refreshed against linux-next. Although I do wonder why we are > still working on this code since it has never worked on 64 bit systems > so probably all the users gave up a decade ago. So this is untested ? If so please make it very clear in the commit message because the kernel is IMHO getting too full of polished, neat, recently modified, never tested, never used code. I agree it would be better if the driver was simply deleted. I've not even seen an ATP870 bug report in years. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
