[Buildroot] [PATCH 2/3] package/openvmtools: fix syncDriverPosix
Romain Naour
romain.naour at openwide.fr
Sat Feb 14 11:38:34 UTC 2015
Hi Thomas,
Le 14/02/2015 09:20, Thomas Petazzoni a écrit :
> Dear Romain Naour,
>
> On Mon, 9 Feb 2015 00:22:09 +0100, Romain Naour wrote:
>> Backport a patch from Fedora
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Romain Naour <romain.naour at openwide.fr>
>> ---
>> package/openvmtools/0007-sizeof_argument.patch | 18 ++++++++++++++++++
>> 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+)
>> create mode 100644 package/openvmtools/0007-sizeof_argument.patch
>
> Applied to master, thanks.
>
> Note that Debian also has a collection of patches on open-vm-tools, and
> at least two of them seem to fix security related issues. Is this stuff
> still maintained upstream? They have apparently moved their development
> to github, at https://github.com/vmware/open-vm-tools.
>
Indeed, I've cloned this repository to check if the Fedora patches were merged.
It seems that it is still maintained, but not on regular basis.
I think the two patches from Debian needs further testing...
Karoly can you review those patches ?
In the meantime, I'll try to have some time next week to test this package with
our VWware image at work.
> Can you check if those patches were merged here already?
Not yet, the last commit has been merged the 28/10/2014.
Best regards,
Romain
>
> Thanks!
>
> Thomas
>
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