[PATCH 022/115] fbcon: when font is freed, clear also vc_font.data
Luis Henriques
luis.henriques at canonical.com
Mon May 20 10:50:22 UTC 2013
3.5.7.13 -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
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From: Mika Kuoppala <mika.kuoppala at linux.intel.com>
commit e6637d5427d2af9f3f33b95447bfc5347e5ccd85 upstream.
commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9
Author: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
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 <mika.kuoppala at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index 18ded2d..a01317c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -1228,6 +1228,8 @@ static void fbcon_deinit(struct vc_data *vc)
finished:
fbcon_free_font(p, free_font);
+ if (free_font)
+ vc->vc_font.data = NULL;
if (!con_is_bound(&fb_con))
fbcon_exit();
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1.8.1.2
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