Re: [PATCH] vt: Fix a missing-check bug in drivers/tty/vt/vt.c file of Linux 5.0.14

From: Gen Zhang
Date: Thu May 16 2019 - 05:09:34 EST


On Mon, May 13, 2019 at 11:58:09AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> qemu should work just fine, I don't know what else to suggest. Run it
> on "real hardware" with a kmalloc function modified to fail this
> allocation?
>
> good luck!
>
> greg k-h
I don't think we need to unwind the loop. The loop condition
MIN_NR_CONSOLES is defined as 1 in include/uapi/linux/vt.h. In this
situation, should we free other memory except vc_cons[currcons].d, vc
and vc->vc_screenbuf?
Thanks
Gen