Re: Kernel update for Debian 3.0/mips
Guido Guenther wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 09, 2002 at 06:12:24PM +0100, Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> [..snip..]
> > Is it possible to update kernel-patch-*-mips before to include the appended
> > patch or is this too late? It fixes the kernel stack corruption encountered
> > on Personal DECstations which is triggered by e.g. debian-installer.
> Is it also triggerd by boot-floppies? debian-installer is a sarge
> issue only.
Sorry, I meant s/debian-installer/dbootstrap/
> Are Personal DECstations supported by the current (2.4.17)
> kernel images?
It works fine as long as you don't ask for the machine's identification.
> If not, can we delay this 'til r2, so we can give things
> proper testing (the patch looks harmless enough on the other hand)?
Basically it increases the buffersize for strcat/strcpy to avoid
the overflow. The other DECstations have shorter names, that's
why they work.
Thiemo
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