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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 11:11:38 EST


On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 03:52:31PM +0200, Grzegorz Halat wrote:
> 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

Ok, now queued up to go to Linus for 5.2-final.

thanks,

greg k-h