Re: [PATCH] vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual_init() after failed memory allocation

From: Grzegorz Halat
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 09:55:44 EST


On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> How? How are you triggering a memory allocation failure in a "normal"
> system?
> Anyway, I'll queue this up, but it really does not seem like anything
> anyone would see "in the wild"

I've seen this crash twice in ours customer environment under low
memory conditions.
There is a report in Debian bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804443
and LKML bug report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/18/591

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Grzegorz