Bug 1386973. Infinite loop in pci_get_rom_size()

[Andy Whitcroft]

On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 10:15:29AM -0300, Federico wrote:
> Hi.
> I wanted to bring your attention to this bug which has a working patch.
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-lts-trusty/+bug/1386973
> 
> I don't know what's the best way to get this integrated in future kernels,
> but I would also love to have this integrated in stable kernels as I think
> I'll be using them for a while.
> 
> This bug is in all kernels. I tested 14.04, 14.10 and daily images from
> 15.04. All loop forever on boot with my video card when trying to use KMS.
> 
> There are panic stack traces attached.
> 
> It has been discussed here
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-January/thread.html#75204
> 
> And the solution was provided here:
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2015-January/075488.html

Generally we wait for those kinds of fixes to get applied to at least
the maintainers tree as then we know it has had some review, before
exposing our users to it.

-apw