[drm] [radeon] [3.1.4] slub memory corruption in drm_vblank_cleanup

batouzo batouzo at gmx.com
Wed Dec 14 09:12:26 PST 2011


On 12/14/2011 05:40 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:32 AM, batouzo <batouzo at gmx.com> wrote:
>> On 12/14/2011 03:10 PM, Alex Deucher wrote:
>>
>>>> Though, the 60 second delay may influence the rarity of hitting BUG (it
>>>> was the case with netconsole's 60sec wait).
>>>> Should I just remove loading of this firmware?
>>>>
>>> Make sure the ucode is available in your initrd or kernel image or
>>> filesystem depending on how you are loading the driver.  The driver
>>> has much more limited functionality without the ucode (no acceleration
>>> support, no interrupt support).  You may not hit the bug at all due to
>>> the reduced functionality.
>>
>> Actually, where is that file? Can't find CEDAR_pfp.bin or even any
>> "*CEDAR*" in entire filesystem where I build the kernel.
>>
>> Also I tried CONFIG_FIRMWARE_IN_KERNEL=y
>> but it didn't helped, hm.
>>
> 
> You need to grab them from here:
> http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/dwmw2/linux-firmware.git

Ok I see.

Is there a pubkey signed version of that available, or what is the
safe-download procedure (as with kernl.org .tar's + .sign for kernels)?



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