linux.git/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c, branch v4.13

vt: fix \e[2m using the wrong placeholder color on graphical consoles

2017-06-09T09:20:08+00:00

Only vgacon and sisusbcon did it right, the rest (via generic code) tried
underline (usually cyan).

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: fix unchecked __put_user() in tioclinux ioctls

2017-06-09T09:07:36+00:00

Only read access is checked before this call.

Actually, at the moment this is not an issue, as every in-tree arch does
the same manual checks for VERIFY_READ vs VERIFY_WRITE, relying on the MMU
to tell them apart, but this wasn't the case in the past and may happen
again on some odd arch in the future.

If anyone cares about 3.7 and earlier, this is a security hole (untested)
on real 80386 CPUs.

Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski 
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org # v3.7-
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: Disable default console blanking interval

2017-03-31T14:56:10+00:00

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/869017

Console blanking is not enabling DPMS power saving (thereby negating any
power-saving benefit), and is simply turning the screen content blank. This
means that any crash output is invisible which is unhelpful on a server
(virtual or otherwise).

Furthermore, CRT burn in concerns should no longer govern the default case.
Affected users could always set consoleblank on the kernel command line.

Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Adam Borowski 
Cc: Scot Doyle 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

sched/headers: Prepare for new header dependencies before moving code to

2017-03-02T07:42:29+00:00

We are going to split  out of , which
will have to be picked up from other headers and a couple of .c files.

Create a trivial placeholder  file that just
maps to  to make this patch obviously correct and
bisectable.

Include the new header in the files that are going to need it.

Acked-by: Linus Torvalds 
Cc: Mike Galbraith 
Cc: Peter Zijlstra 
Cc: Thomas Gleixner 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

console: Add callback to flush scrollback buffer to consw struct

2017-01-25T10:54:02+00:00

This new callback is in preparation for persistent scrollback buffer
support for VGA consoles.
With a single scrollback buffer for all consoles, we could flush the
buffer just by invocating consw->con_switch(). But when each VGA console
has its own scrollback buffer, we need a new callback to tell the
video console driver which buffer to flush.

Signed-off-by: Manuel Schölling 
Reviewed-by: Andrey Utkin 
Tested-by: Andrey Utkin 
Tested-by: Adam Borowski 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge branch 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq

2016-12-13T20:59:57+00:00

Pull workqueue updates from Tejun Heo:
 "Mostly patches to initialize workqueue subsystem earlier and get rid
  of keventd_up().

  The patches were headed for the last merge cycle but got delayed due
  to a bug found late minute, which is fixed now.

  Also, to help debugging, destroy_workqueue() is more chatty now on a
  sanity check failure."

* 'for-4.10' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tj/wq:
  workqueue: move wq_numa_init() to workqueue_init()
  workqueue: remove keventd_up()
  debugobj, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  slab, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  power, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  tty, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  mce, workqueue: remove keventd_up() usage
  workqueue: make workqueue available early during boot
  workqueue: dump workqueue state on sanity check failures in destroy_workqueue()

Merge 4.9-rc3 into tty-next

2016-10-30T10:42:10+00:00

We want the serial/tty fixes in here as well.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vt: clear selection before resizing

2016-10-27T15:19:35+00:00

When resizing a vt its selection may exceed the new size, resulting in
an invalid memory access [1]. Clear the selection before resizing.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+acDTwy4umEvf5ROBGiRJNrxHN4Cn5szCXE5Jw-d1B=Xw@mail.gmail.com

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle 
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: limit terminal size to 4M chars

2016-10-27T14:41:56+00:00

Size of kmalloc() in vc_do_resize() is controlled by user.
Too large kmalloc() size triggers WARNING message on console.
Put a reasonable upper bound on terminal size to prevent WARNINGs.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Vyukov 
CC: David Rientjes 
Cc: One Thousand Gnomes 
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman 
Cc: Jiri Slaby 
Cc: Peter Hurley 
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: syzkaller@googlegroups.com
Cc: stable 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

tty: vt, rename variables to sane names

2016-10-27T14:37:44+00:00

This makes the code understandable at least. No functional changes.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman