linux-kernel - [Patch] console: limit the range of VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK

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Date:	Thu, 24 Dec 2009 21:40:32 -0500
From:	Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Amerigo Wang <amwang@...hat.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [Patch] console: limit the range of VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE


BuraphaLinux reported that we will trigger a mm warning when
we CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE=65536, this is because
mm cann't allocate so many pages. We should limit the range
of CONFIG_VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE, don't give a user
any chance to trigger that.

Reported-by: BuraphaLinux Server <buraphalinuxserver@...il.com>
Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@...hat.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>

---
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
index fc7d9bb..8e8f18d 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
+++ b/drivers/video/console/Kconfig
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK
 config VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK_SIZE
        int "Scrollback Buffer Size (in KB)"
        depends on VGACON_SOFT_SCROLLBACK
+       range 1 1024
        default "64"
        help
          Enter the amount of System RAM to allocate for the scrollback
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