vt: Fix console corruption on driver hand-over.
authorFrancisco Jerez <currojerez@riseup.net>
Sun, 22 Aug 2010 15:37:24 +0000 (17:37 +0200)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Sat, 4 Sep 2010 00:29:03 +0000 (17:29 -0700)
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>
drivers/char/vt.c

index 50590c7f2c01ac4c2a71595e94fbebe930081079..281aada7b4a110a2d9f47d5e3e780596a36c298e 100644 (file)
@@ -906,22 +906,16 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
                         * bottom of buffer
                         */
                        old_origin += (old_rows - new_rows) * old_row_size;
-                       end = vc->vc_scr_end;
                } else {
                        /*
                         * Cursor is in no man's land, copy 1/2 screenful
                         * from the top and bottom of cursor position
                         */
                        old_origin += (vc->vc_y - new_rows/2) * old_row_size;
-                       end = old_origin + (old_row_size * new_rows);
                }
-       } else
-               /*
-                * Cursor near the top, copy contents from the top of buffer
-                */
-               end = (old_rows > new_rows) ? old_origin +
-                       (old_row_size * new_rows) :
-                       vc->vc_scr_end;
+       }
+
+       end = old_origin + old_row_size * min(old_rows, new_rows);
 
        update_attr(vc);
 
@@ -3075,8 +3069,7 @@ static int bind_con_driver(const struct consw *csw, int first, int last,
 
                old_was_color = vc->vc_can_do_color;
                vc->vc_sw->con_deinit(vc);
-               if (!vc->vc_origin)
-                       vc->vc_origin = (unsigned long)vc->vc_screenbuf;
+               vc->vc_origin = (unsigned long)vc->vc_screenbuf;
                visual_init(vc, i, 0);
                set_origin(vc);
                update_attr(vc);