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authorFrancisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>2010-08-22 11:37:24 -0400
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2010-09-03 20:29:03 -0400
commit9fc2b2d0cf743008d8f6be6293278f4ef61f09f3 (patch)
treedf7c30660be493aa9844da45f02c06097936f5b9 /drivers/char
parent2bfc96a127bc1cc94d26bfaa40159966064f9c8c (diff)
vt: Fix console corruption on driver hand-over.
After 02f0777a0d6560eb995aade34a1b82f95c0452da "vc_origin" is no longer reset to the screen buffer before calling the con_init() hook of the new console driver. If the old driver wasn't using a fixed scanout buffer (e.g. the case of vgacon) "vc_origin" may be a pointer to a VRAM location, and its contents aren't guaranteed to be preserved after calling con_deinit() on the old driver and con_init() on the new driver, i.e. the subsequent console resize may fill the framebuffer with garbage. It can be reproduced in the transition from vgacon to the nouveau framebuffer driver: in that case the legacy VGA aperture "vc_origin" points to becomes unreadable after fbcon_init(). This patch reverts the mentioned commit. To avoid the problem it intended to fix, stop using "vc_scr_end" in vc_do_resize() to calculate how many rows we have to copy (actually the code looks simpler this way without the help of "vc_scr_end"). Signed-off-by: Francisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net> Cc: qiaochong <qiaochong@loongson.cn> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/char')
-rw-r--r--drivers/char/vt.c15
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 11 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/char/vt.c b/drivers/char/vt.c
index 50590c7f2c0..281aada7b4a 100644
--- a/drivers/char/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/char/vt.c
@@ -906,22 +906,16 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
906 * bottom of buffer 906 * bottom of buffer
907 */ 907 */
908 old_origin += (old_rows - new_rows) * old_row_size; 908 old_origin += (old_rows - new_rows) * old_row_size;
909 end = vc->vc_scr_end;
910 } else { 909 } else {
911 /* 910 /*
912 * Cursor is in no man's land, copy 1/2 screenful 911 * Cursor is in no man's land, copy 1/2 screenful
913 * from the top and bottom of cursor position 912 * from the top and bottom of cursor position
914 */ 913 */
915 old_origin += (vc->vc_y - new_rows/2) * old_row_size; 914 old_origin += (vc->vc_y - new_rows/2) * old_row_size;
916 end = old_origin + (old_row_size * new_rows);
917 } 915 }
918 } else 916 }
919 /* 917
920 * Cursor near the top, copy contents from the top of buffer 918 end = old_origin + old_row_size * min(old_rows, new_rows);
921 */
922 end = (old_rows > new_rows) ? old_origin +
923 (old_row_size * new_rows) :
924 vc->vc_scr_end;
925 919
926 update_attr(vc); 920 update_attr(vc);
927 921
@@ -3075,8 +3069,7 @@ static int bind_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last,
3075 3069
3076 old_was_color = vc->vc_can_do_color; 3070 old_was_color = vc->vc_can_do_color;
3077 vc->vc_sw->con_deinit(vc); 3071 vc->vc_sw->con_deinit(vc);
3078 if (!vc->vc_origin) 3072 vc->vc_origin = (unsigned long)vc->vc_screenbuf;
3079 vc->vc_origin = (unsigned long)vc->vc_screenbuf;
3080 visual_init(vc, i, 0); 3073 visual_init(vc, i, 0);
3081 set_origin(vc); 3074 set_origin(vc);
3082 update_attr(vc); 3075 update_attr(vc);