On 9/12/07, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:
quoted text > Kees Cook wrote:
> > This patch against 2.6.23-rc6 fixes a couple drivers that do not
> > correctly terminate their pci_device_id lists. This results in garbage
> > being spewed into modules.pcimap when the module happens to not have
> > 28 NULL bytes following the table, and/or the last PCI ID is actually
> > truncated from the table when calculating the modules.alias PCI aliases,
> > cause those unfortunate device IDs to not auto-load.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@ubuntu.com>
>
> ACK
I mut say, non-terminated PCI ids lists are constant PITA. There should be
a way to a) put it in macro[1], so that terminator automatically added, and
b) still allow #ifdef inside table like, e.g. 8139too does.
[1] or not macro, because #ifdef inside macros aren't allowed.
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Re: [PATCH] pci: fix unterminated pci_device_id lists , Alexey Dobriyan , (Wed Sep 12, 4:48 am)