Re: [PATCH] auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: add missing sentinel entry in img_ascii_lcd_matches

From: Javier Martinez Canillas
Date: Mon Mar 06 2017 - 14:07:53 EST


Hello Paul,

On 03/06/2017 03:54 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
> Hi Javier,
>
> On Monday, 6 March 2017 10:09:09 PST Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
>> On 02/24/2017 06:56 PM, Paul Burton wrote:
>>> On Monday, 20 February 2017 21:39:11 PST Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
>>>> The OF device table must be terminated, otherwise we'll be walking past
>>>> it and into areas unknown.
>>>>
>>>> This causes KASAN errors reported by 0day kernel testing robot.
>>>>
>>>> Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>> Fixes: 0cad855fbd08 ("auxdisplay: img-ascii-lcd: driver for simple
>>>> ASCII...") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>>> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>> An essentially identical patch was already submitted over here:
>>>
>>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9493973/
>>>
>>> I'm not sure how it ought to get into mainline - since the driver went
>>> through the MIPS tree perhaps this fix can too?
>>
>> Do you know who should I ping about it? It has been posted a couple of
>> months ago.
>
> If it can go through the MIPS tree that would be Ralf (who I copied
> previously). If not then it's Miguel as auxdisplay maintainer.
>

Ok, Thanks for your help. I just asked in case MAINTAINERS wasn't up-to-date
since the patches were posted a long time ago and had no feedback.

> Thanks,
> Paul
>

Best regards,
--
Javier Martinez Canillas
Open Source Group
Samsung Research America