From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934007Ab3EGABp (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2013 20:01:45 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:36102 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932719Ab3EFW5A (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 May 2013 18:57:00 -0400 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Mika Kuoppala , Dave Airlie Subject: [ 19/63] fbcon: when font is freed, clear also vc_font.data Date: Mon, 6 May 2013 15:55:57 -0700 Message-Id: <20130506225319.661721079@linuxfoundation.org> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.8.3.rc0.20.gb99dd2e In-Reply-To: <20130506225314.802167948@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20130506225314.802167948@linuxfoundation.org> User-Agent: quilt/0.60-5.1.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 3.4-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Mika Kuoppala commit e6637d5427d2af9f3f33b95447bfc5347e5ccd85 upstream. commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9 Author: Dave Airlie Date: Thu Jan 24 16:12:41 2013 +1000 fbcon: don't lose the console font across generic->chip driver switch uses a pointer in vc->vc_font.data to load font into the new driver. However if the font is actually freed, we need to clear the data so that we don't reload font from dangling pointer. Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340 Signed-off-by: Mika Kuoppala Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c @@ -1228,6 +1228,8 @@ static void fbcon_deinit(struct vc_data finished: fbcon_free_font(p, free_font); + if (free_font) + vc->vc_font.data = NULL; if (!con_is_bound(&fb_con)) fbcon_exit();