From: Yao Yiqi <yyaqia@gmail.com>
To: deller@gmx.de, tzimmermann@suse.de, simona@ffwll.ch
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yaoyiqi3@huawei.com,
Yao Yiqi <yyaqia@gmail.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v2 3/3] fbcon: Retry rotated font allocation after failure
Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2026 11:45:33 +0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261016034533.445862-4-yaoyiqi3@huawei.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20261016034533.445862-1-yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
From: Yao Yiqi <yyaqia@gmail.com>
From: Yao Yiqi <yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
fbcon_rotate_font() records the font, its geometry and the rotation it
is about to handle in par->rotated before calling font_data_rotate().
If the allocation fails, the error path clears par->rotated.buf, but
the recorded font, geometry and rotation already look up to date, so
the next call takes the early-out and never retries. The rotated
putcs/cursor ops keep returning early on the NULL buffer and the
console stays blank until a font or rotation with a different key is
installed, even once memory is available again.
Also test par->rotated.buf in the early-out, so a failed allocation is
retried the next time fbcon_rotate_font() runs: at the next
fbcon_switch(), fbcon_modechanged() or font change.
Fixes: e4ef723d8975 ("fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Yao Yiqi <yaoyiqi3@huawei.com>
---
Changes in v2:
- The early-out now also compares the font geometry (previous patch in
this series); the retry covers the combined key.
---
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.c | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.c
index 660a3fa81bae..7afd63dcee7b 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon_rotate.c
@@ -25,7 +25,8 @@ int fbcon_rotate_font(struct fb_info *info, struct vc_data *vc)
par->rotate == par->rotated.buf_rotate &&
vc->vc_font.width == par->rotated.buf_width &&
vc->vc_font.height == par->rotated.buf_height &&
- vc->vc_font.charcount == par->rotated.buf_charcount)
+ vc->vc_font.charcount == par->rotated.buf_charcount &&
+ par->rotated.buf)
return 0;
par->rotated.fontdata = par->p->fontdata;
--
2.56.0
prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-10-16 3:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-16 3:45 [PATCH v2 0/3] fbcon: fix rotated font buffer handling on font change Yao Yiqi
2026-10-16 3:45 ` [PATCH v2 1/3] fbcon: Include font geometry in the rotated font cache Yao Yiqi
2026-10-16 3:45 ` [PATCH v2 2/3] fbcon: Rebuild rotated font buffer on font change Yao Yiqi
2026-10-16 3:45 ` Yao Yiqi [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20261016034533.445862-4-yaoyiqi3@huawei.com \
--to=yyaqia@gmail.com \
--cc=deller@gmx.de \
--cc=dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org \
--cc=linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=simona@ffwll.ch \
--cc=stable@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=tzimmermann@suse.de \
--cc=yaoyiqi3@huawei.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox