Re: [PATCH] usbtouchscreen: fix buffer overflow, make more egalax work

On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:05:10 +0100
Daniel Ritz <[email protected]> wrote:

> [PATCH] usbtouchscreen: fix buffer overflow, make more egalax work
> 
> fixes a buffer overflow in mutli-packet handling code. the overflow can only
> happen with eGalax devices and is even there very unlikely (only non-report
> packet are affected any only when truncated after the first byte).
> 
> it also changes the mutli-packet handling code not to drop unknown packets,
> but rather just drop one byte. this allows synchronizing on report packets
> in the data stream. it's required for some egalax devices to work at all.
> 
> also removes the pointless 'flags' member of the device struct and sets the
> version number to 0.6. and some minor cleanups.
> 

Sentences start with a capital letter, please.

The term "buffer overflow" tends to get people's juices flowing, yet this
patch has been languishing for a week.

I'll queue it up as for-2.6.24-unless-someone-tells-me-otherwise, thanks. 
(After having capitalised the sentences, grr.)

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