Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Two bugs in fbcon_putcs

[Martin E. <Mar...@ma...>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Geert Uytterhoeven" <ge...@li...>
To: "Martin Erhardsen" <Mar...@ma...>
Cc: "James Simmons" <jsi...@tr...>; <lin...@li...>
Sent: Saturday, June 16, 2001 10:48 AM
Subject: Re: [Linux-fbdev-devel] Two bugs in fbcon_putcs


> On Sat, 16 Jun 2001, Martin Erhardsen wrote:
> > I have a couple of further API questions.
> >
> > How about reading 3 bytes past the end of the bitmap.
> > I have noticed that 3dfx driver carefully avoids this,
> > but if this were allowed, it would avoid having a special case for
> > the last 3 bytes.
>
> Which bitmap?

The bitmap used for drawing characters with putc and putcs.
I was wondering if reading 3 extra bytes past the end could
cause a segmantation fault.