Re: [PATCH] vgacon: fix out of bounds write to the scrollback buffer

From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Cc: "Jiri Slaby" <jirislaby@kernel.org>,
	"Linux Fbdev development list" <linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	"Kyungtae Kim" <kt0755@gmail.com>,
	"Anthony Liguori" <aliguori@amazon.com>,
	"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz" <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>,
	"Linux kernel mailing list" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"DRI devel" <dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa@csail.mit.edu>,
	"Solar Designer" <solar@openwall.com>,
	"Yang Yingliang" <yangyingliang@huawei.com>,
	xiao.zhang@windriver.com,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	张云海 <zhangyunhai@nsfocus.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vgacon: fix out of bounds write to the scrollback buffer
Date: Mon, 3 Aug 2020 11:47:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200803094753.GC635660@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKMK7uEV+CV89-L1Y=dijOEy8DKE=juRfQDnNnbhbAJhFh1fYw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:45:07AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 10:26 AM Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 03, 2020 at 10:08:43AM +0200, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > On 31. 07. 20, 7:22, 张云海 wrote:
> > > > Remove whitespace at EOL
> > >
> > > I am fine with the patch. However it should be sent properly (inline
> > > mail, having a PATCH subject etc. -- see
> > > Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst). git send-email after git
> > > format-patch handles most of it.
> > >
> > > There is also question who is willing to take it?
> > >
> > > Bart? Greg? Should we route it via akpm, or will you Linus directly? (I
> > > can sign off and resend the patch which was attached to the mail I am
> > > replying to too, if need be.)
> >
> > I can take it, if Bart can't, just let me know.
> 
> Yeah vt stuff and console drivers != fbcon go through Greg's tree past
> few years ...
> 
> Greg, should we maybe add a MAINTAINERS entry that matches on all
> things console? With tty/vt you definitely have the other side of that
> coin already :-)

Sure, that would be good as things do fall through the cracks at times.

If you write the patch, I'll merge it :)

greg k-h