linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] console/dummy: leave .con_font

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Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 16:04:47 +0100
From:   Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
To:     Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL

On Friday, January 05, 2018 04:42:58 PM Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> 
> When this method is set, the caller expects struct console_font fields
> to be properly initialized when it returns. Leave it unset otherwise
> nonsensical (leaked kernel stack) values are returned to user space.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
> Cc: stable@...nel.org

Please check your patches with tools/checkpatch.pl script:

ERROR: The 'stable' address should be 'stable@...r.kernel.org'
#9: 
Cc: stable@...nel.org

After updating this I queued the patch for 4.16, thanks.

Best regards,
--
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Samsung R&D Institute Poland
Samsung Electronics