From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Phillip Susi <phill@thesusis.net>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-doc@vger.kernel.org" <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>,
Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
Subject: Re: fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch)
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2021 17:11:51 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <X/3KR80YekApObf8@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bldujj1r.fsf@vps.thesusis.net>
On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 10:00:09AM -0500, Phillip Susi wrote:
>
> Linus Torvalds writes:
>
> > It really was buggy, with security implications. And we have no maintainers.
>
> Could you be more specific? I can't try to fix it if I don't understand
> what is wrong with it. Are there any bug reports or anything I could
> look at?
Along with what Daniel has already pointed out, just look at all of the
old syzbot reports for the code in this area. Try fixing one of those
reports in an older kernel to give yourself an idea of the issues
involved.
Best of luck!
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-01-12 16:11 UTC|newest]
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2020-09-15 1:18 ` fbcon: remove soft scrollback code (missing Doc. patch) Randy Dunlap
2020-09-15 1:28 ` Bhaskar Chowdhury
2020-09-15 1:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-15 1:34 ` Randy Dunlap
2020-09-15 1:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2020-09-16 20:54 ` Pavel Machek
2020-09-18 10:27 ` Adam Borowski
2020-09-30 21:29 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2021-01-08 19:01 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-08 23:11 ` Linus Torvalds
2021-01-12 15:00 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-12 16:11 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-01-12 15:57 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-12 15:57 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-14 15:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-14 15:56 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-14 16:11 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-14 16:11 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-15 8:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-15 8:06 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-03 8:03 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-02-03 8:03 ` Thomas Zimmermann
2021-01-22 18:55 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-22 18:55 ` Phillip Susi
2021-01-25 15:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-01-25 15:39 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-02-02 14:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-02 14:18 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-02 15:13 ` Phillip Susi
2021-02-02 15:13 ` Phillip Susi
2021-02-02 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-02-02 15:23 ` Daniel Vetter
2021-01-14 17:43 ` fbcon: remove soft scrollback code Alan Mackenzie
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