Bug 460285

Summary:	evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Zdenek Kabelac <zkabelac>
Component:	xorg-x11-drv-synaptics	Assignee:	Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Description Zdenek Kabelac 2008-08-27 11:50:40 UTC

Description of problem:

My kernel doesn't like buffer size of synaptics driver I guess:

evdev.c(EVIOCGBIT): Suspicious buffer size 511, limiting output to 64 bytes. See http://userweb.kernel.org/~dtor/eviocgbit-bug.html

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
synaptics-0.14.6-10.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
boot 2.6.27-rc kernel

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Expected results:
updated driver according to given html page

Additional info:

Comment 1 Zdenek Kabelac 2008-09-03 13:08:01 UTC

It looks like the problem is no longer visible with package:

xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.0-3.fc10.x86_64

I guess this bug might be closed

Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2008-09-15 05:55:05 UTC

Fixed with the following commit, and part of xorg-x11-drv-synaptics-0.15.0-1 and later.

commit 89b1add387b52ef55f5a8f87603153d27207e2f6
Author: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov>
Date:   Fri Aug 1 22:58:14 2008 +0200

    Fix crash on kernels with extended keymap space