Re: [PATCH] tty/vt: don't set font mappings on vc not supporting this

[Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, Sep 13, 2015 at 11:33:51AM +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> commit 9e326f78713a4421fe11afc2ddeac07698fac131 upstream
> 
> We can call this function for a dummy console that doesn't support
> setting the font mapping, which will result in a null ptr BUG. So check
> for this case and return error for consoles w/o font mapping support.
> 
> Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.14.x
> Signed-off-by: Sudip Mukherjee <sudip@vectorindia.org>
> ---
> 
> backporting for the first time so not exactly sure if the format is ok.

You need to keep the original authorship of the patch around, as well as
their signed-off-by information.  Also, you didn't backport it
identically:

> 
>  drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c | 6 ++++++
>  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
> index 2978ca5..08d36e4 100644
> --- a/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
> +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/consolemap.c
> @@ -540,6 +540,11 @@ int con_set_unimap(struct vc_data *vc, ushort ct, struct unipair __user *list)
>  
>  	/* Save original vc_unipagdir_loc in case we allocate a new one */
>  	p = (struct uni_pagedir *)*vc->vc_uni_pagedir_loc;
> +
> +	if (!p) {
> +		err = -EINVAL;
> +		goto out_unlock;

The original has a blank line between these two lines, why not keep it?

I'll fix it up, but be a bit more careful next time please.

thanks,

greg k-h