PROBLEM: four bttv tuners in one PC crashed

[Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml (at) 7eggert.dyndns.org>]

Duncan Sands <duncan.sands (at) math.u-psud.fr> wrote:

>> The bttv driver/chip seems to cause random memory corruption sometimes,
>> processes will just start dying...
> 
> There is a known buffer overflow in the bttv driver (when using
> grabdisplay).  The fix is waiting on an audit of the rest of the
> bttv (and similar) code, since it looks like the same mistake
> occurs in several places.

Can you give me a hint on where exactly to shoot at? I'n still hoping it's
not my VIA board giving me trouble (corrupting the first four bytes of a
semi-random page).
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verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.

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