Re: 2.6.35-rc2,3 -- Problem with PS2 keyboard and mouse driver

Paulo Marques
2010-07-02T12:33:06Z

werner@guyane.yi.org wrote:
> 2.6.35-rc2,3,3-git1 -- Problem with PS2 keyboard and mouse driver
>
> That problem continues at -git6 .
>
> Since 2.6.35-rc2 the USB keyboard driver don't work longer, on
> different mainboards and keyboards.
>
> On 2.6.35-rc1 things still were (more or less) normal.
>
> THIS IS AN ERROR WHICH ENTERED BETWEEN 2.6.35 -rc1 and -rc2 !!

The address 07200720 looks like a couple of gray spaces in a vga console
and I've seen that before not long ago.

After a bit of searching, I've found it: it's in the thread that started
with "Linux 2.6.35-rc2", and most importantly in the thread:

BUG kmalloc-4096: Poison overwritten (2.6.35-rc2)

where there is a patch that is supposed to fix this. I thought this was
already applied upstream, though...

For your convenience, the patch in that thread is this one (might be
white space mangled, as I just copy+pasted it, so you might need to
apply it by hand):

---
drivers/char/vt.c | 4 ++--
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 1296c42..e123958 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -304,8 +304,8 @@ static void scrup(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int
t, unsigned int b, int nr)
d = (unsigned short *)(vc->vc_origin + vc->vc_size_row * t);
s = (unsigned short *)(vc->vc_origin + vc->vc_size_row * (t + nr));
scr_memmovew(d, s, (b - t - nr) * vc->vc_size_row);
- scr_memsetw(d + (b - t - nr) * vc->vc_size_row, vc->vc_video_erase_char,
- vc->vc_size_row * nr);
+ scr_memsetw((void *)d + (b - t - nr) * vc->vc_size_row,
+ vc->vc_video_erase_char, vc->vc_size_row * nr);
}

static void scrdown(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int t, unsigned int b,
int nr)