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From: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: jsimmons@infradead.org
Subject: Little console problem in 2.5.30
Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 02:37:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020819023731.C316@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)

Hi, all:

I would appreciate if someone would explain me if the attached patch
does the right thing. The problem is that I do not use the framebuffer,
and use a serial console. Whenever a legacy /sbin/init tries to
open /dev/tty0, the system oopses dereferencing conswitchp in
visual_init().

-- Pete

diff -ur -X dontdiff linux-2.5.30-sp_pbk/drivers/char/console.c linux-2.5.30-sparc/drivers/char/console.c
--- linux-2.5.30-sp_pbk/drivers/char/console.c	Thu Aug  1 14:16:34 2002
+++ linux-2.5.30-sparc/drivers/char/console.c	Sun Aug 18 23:14:20 2002
@@ -652,7 +652,7 @@
 
 int vc_allocate(unsigned int currcons)	/* return 0 on success */
 {
-	if (currcons >= MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
+	if (currcons >= MAX_NR_CONSOLES || conswitchp == NULL)
 		return -ENXIO;
 	if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) {
 	    long p, q;

             reply	other threads:[~2002-08-19  6:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-08-19  6:37 Pete Zaitcev [this message]
2002-08-19 12:36 ` Little console problem in 2.5.30 Geert Uytterhoeven
2002-08-20  1:25   ` Petr Vandrovec
2002-08-24  4:57   ` Pete Zaitcev
2002-08-24  4:49     ` David S. Miller

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