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

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri May 24 2019 - 04:09:04 EST


On Thu, May 16, 2019 at 04:33:40PM +0200, Grzegorz Halat wrote:
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019 at 16:59, Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > After memory allocation failure vc_allocate() doesn't clean up data
> > which has been initialized in visual_init(). In case of fbcon this
> > leads to divide-by-0 in fbcon_init() on next open of the same tty.
>
> Hi,
> A gentle reminder. Could you please review my patch? I've seen two
> crashes caused by this bug.

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".

thanks,

greg k-h