Bug 146815

Summary: Badness in vsnprintf at lib/vsprintf.c:279
Product: [openSUSE] SUSE Linux 10.1 Reporter: Christian Boltz <suse-beta>
Component: KernelAssignee: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh>
Status: VERIFIED FIXED QA Contact: E-mail List <qa-bugs>
Severity: Normal    
Priority: P5 - None    
Version: Beta 2   
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Hardware: Other   
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Attachments: dmesg output directly after booting

Description Christian Boltz 2006-01-30 22:32:48 UTC 
I see the message "Badness in vsnprintf at lib/vsprintf.c:279" when booting 10.1 beta2 on my laptop (Acer TravelMate 803).

Google found a discussion about this at the lkml: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/370945

It seems to be an issue of Logitech USB keyboards - I have one also (in my case a wireless one).

I don't know if this has negative impact to the running system (I didn't notice any yet, but also didn't use the USB keyboard that much in beta2) - but if it can cause problems, you should add the patch from the above thread to the kernel.
Comment 1 Christian Boltz 2006-01-30 22:33:33 UTC 
Created attachment 65777 [details]
dmesg output directly after booting
Comment 2 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-01-31 03:07:24 UTC 
I'll take this, as I have a patch for it...
Comment 3 Greg Kroah-Hartman 2006-01-31 18:21:25 UTC 
Ok, input buffer overflow patch is in our cvs tree, will show up in tomorrow's kernel-of-the-day.

Can you please test it?
Comment 4 Christian Boltz 2006-02-02 23:15:29 UTC 
The error message is gone with kernel-default-2.6.16_rc1_git3-20060201174415
:-)

Thanks!