Incorrect value passed for maxevents in call to epoll_wait() in ply-event-loop.c
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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plymouth (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: plymouth
Ubuntu lucid
plymouth 0.8.0~-9
In ply_event_
events is a pointer, to sizeof (events) is 4 or 8 on most architectures.
This seems unlikely to have been what was intended.
Is PLY_EVENT_
This bug was found while investigating the following issue, but is probably not directly related:
* https:/
Related branches
tags: | added: patch |
description: | updated |
description: | updated |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
importance: | Undecided → Medium |
status: | New → Triaged |
Changed in plymouth (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Triaged → Fix Committed |
The patch looks correct - could you send that upstream yourself (if not, I'll do it)
There would only be a danger from this on platforms with larger than 64-byte pointers - but it's silly to not use the entire events array