3.9-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
------------------ From: Mika Kuoppala <[email protected]> commit e6637d5427d2af9f3f33b95447bfc5347e5ccd85 upstream. commit ae1287865f5361fa138d4d3b1b6277908b54eac9 Author: Dave Airlie <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]> --- 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(); -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
