Re: [PATCH] console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL

From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Date: Mon Jan 15 2018 - 10:04:59 EST


On Friday, January 05, 2018 04:42:58 PM Nicolas Pitre wrote:
>
> When this method is set, the caller expects struct console_font fields
> to be properly initialized when it returns. Leave it unset otherwise
> nonsensical (leaked kernel stack) values are returned to user space.
>
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

Please check your patches with tools/checkpatch.pl script:

ERROR: The 'stable' address should be 'stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
#9:
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxx

After updating this I queued the patch for 4.16, thanks.

Best regards,
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Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics