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Maciej W. Rozycki caedb12c77 vgacon: Propagate console boot parameters before calling `vc_resize'
commit 3dfac26e2ef29ff2abc2a75aa4cd48fce25a2c4b upstream.

Fix a division by zero in `vgacon_resize' with a backtrace like:

vgacon_resize
vc_do_resize
vgacon_init
do_bind_con_driver
do_unbind_con_driver
fbcon_fb_unbind
do_unregister_framebuffer
do_register_framebuffer
register_framebuffer
__drm_fb_helper_initial_config_and_unlock
drm_helper_hpd_irq_event
dw_hdmi_irq
irq_thread
kthread

caused by `c->vc_cell_height' not having been initialized.  This has
only started to trigger with commit 860dafa90259 ("vt: Fix character
height handling with VT_RESIZEX"), however the ultimate offender is
commit 50ec42edd9 ("[PATCH] Detaching fbcon: fix vgacon to allow
retaking of the console").

Said commit has added a call to `vc_resize' whenever `vgacon_init' is
called with the `init' argument set to 0, which did not happen before.
And the call is made before a key vgacon boot parameter retrieved in
`vgacon_startup' has been propagated in `vgacon_init' for `vc_resize' to
use to the console structure being worked on.  Previously the parameter
was `c->vc_font.height' and now it is `c->vc_cell_height'.

In this particular scenario the registration of fbcon has failed and vt
resorts to vgacon.  Now fbcon does have initialized `c->vc_font.height'
somehow, unlike `c->vc_cell_height', which is why this code did not
crash before, but either way the boot parameters should have been copied
to the console structure ahead of the call to `vc_resize' rather than
afterwards, so that first the call has a chance to use them and second
they do not change the console structure to something possibly different
from what was used by `vc_resize'.

Move the propagation of the vgacon boot parameters ahead of the call to
`vc_resize' then.  Adjust the comment accordingly.

Fixes: 50ec42edd9 ("[PATCH] Detaching fbcon: fix vgacon to allow retaking of the console")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v2.6.18+
Reported-by: Wim Osterholt <wim@djo.tudelft.nl>
Reported-by: Pavel V. Panteleev <panteleev_p@mcst.ru>
Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@orcam.me.uk>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.21.2110252317110.58149@angie.orcam.me.uk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
arch parisc: Fix "make install" on newer debian releases 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
block
certs
crypto crypto: pcrypt - Delay write to padata->info 2021-11-17 09:48:40 +01:00
Documentation netfilter: ipvs: Fix reuse connection if RS weight is 0 2021-12-01 09:23:31 +01:00
drivers vgacon: Propagate console boot parameters before calling `vc_resize' 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
fs fget: check that the fd still exists after getting a ref to it 2021-12-08 09:01:11 +01:00
include ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
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ipc shm: extend forced shm destroy to support objects from several IPC nses 2021-12-01 09:23:35 +01:00
kernel sched/uclamp: Fix rq->uclamp_max not set on first enqueue 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
lib siphash: use _unaligned version by default 2021-12-08 09:01:12 +01:00
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mm hugetlbfs: flush TLBs correctly after huge_pmd_unshare 2021-11-26 10:47:23 +01:00
net ipv6: fix memory leak in fib6_rule_suppress 2021-12-08 09:01:13 +01:00
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security fortify: Explicitly disable Clang support 2021-11-21 13:38:50 +01:00
sound ASoC: topology: Add missing rwsem around snd_ctl_remove() calls 2021-12-01 09:23:32 +01:00
tools selftests: net: Correct case name 2021-12-08 09:01:12 +01:00
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