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* the patch "vt: perform safe console erase" introduces a bug
@ 2019-03-30 18:51 Mikulas Patocka
  2019-03-31 20:18 ` Mikulas Patocka
  0 siblings, 1 reply; 6+ messages in thread
From: Mikulas Patocka @ 2019-03-30 18:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: Nicolas Pitre, Matthew Whitehead; +Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman, stable

Hi

The patch a6dbe442755999960ca54a9b8ecfd9606be0ea75 ("vt: perform safe 
console erase in the right order") introduces a bug.

In order to reproduce the bug
- use framebuffer console with the AMDGPU driver
- type "links" to start the console www browser
- press 'q' and space to exit links

--- now, the cursor line will be permanently visible in the center of the 
screen. It will stay there until something overwrites it.

Before the patch, there was a call to do_update_region, the patch changes 
it to update_region - and this seems to cause the bug with the cursor.

The bug goes away if we change update_region back to do_update_region.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: a6dbe4427559 ("vt: perform safe console erase in the right order")

---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux-5.0.5/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
===================================================================
--- linux-5.0.5.orig/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c	2019-03-30 19:29:26.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-5.0.5/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c	2019-03-30 19:30:50.000000000 +0100
@@ -1518,7 +1518,7 @@ static void csi_J(struct vc_data *vc, in
 			return;
 	}
 	scr_memsetw(start, vc->vc_video_erase_char, 2 * count);
-	update_region(vc, (unsigned long) start, count);
+	do_update_region(vc, (unsigned long) start, count);
 	vc->vc_need_wrap = 0;
 }
 

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2019-03-31 20:18 ` Mikulas Patocka
2019-03-31 23:43   ` Nicolas Pitre
2019-04-16 13:23   ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2019-04-16 14:53     ` Nicolas Pitre
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