[syslinux] [GIT PULL] gfxboot module changes

Sebastian Herbszt herbszt at gmx.de
Sat Oct 23 06:44:18 PDT 2010


H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 10/22/2010 08:46 AM, Colin Watson wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 09:32:56PM +0200, Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
>>> the following changes since commit 94fbd0b8d206102757cecd3dbd67cd701fb70470:
>>>
>>>  Merge remote branch 'liu/master' (2010-10-15 16:41:02 -0700)
>>>
>>> are available in the git repository at:
>>>
>>>  git://repo.or.cz/syslinux/sherbszt.git gfxboot32
>>>
>>> Colin Watson (1):
>>>      gfxboot: fix buffer overrun when loading kernel/initramfs
>>>
>>> com32/gfxboot/gfxboot.c |    3 ++-
>>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> 
>> Thanks for sorting out the confusion around this while I was away.  Do
>> you have any thoughts on
>> http://syslinux.zytor.com/archives/2010-July/014870.html?  It's not
>> clear that I'm going to have time for the refactoring that HPA suggested
>> in the only follow-up to that patch; it wasn't clear to me whether that
>> was going to be a blocker.
>> 
>> I do think this is an improvement and it's just adding support for
>> syntax already documented in doc/menu.txt ...
>> 
> 
> Well, I want to put out Syslinux 4.03 *today*, and I'm not familiar
> enough with gfxboot to know if this patch is correct or likely to
> introduce problems...
> 
> -hpa
> 
> -- 
> H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
> I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

This patch is part of Ubuntus syslinux 4.01 package since July [1].
It should have enough exposure by now to consider safe.

[1] http://changelogs.ubuntu.com/changelogs/pool/main/s/syslinux/syslinux_4.01+dfsg-3ubuntu1/changelog

Sebastian




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