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

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Message-ID: <nycvar.YSQ.7.76.1801151142420.13881@knanqh.ubzr>
Date:   Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:46:07 -0500 (EST)
From:   Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>
To:     Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>
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 Mon, 15 Jan 2018, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> 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

Oops. I cut and pasted it it from commit ea0ee33988778fb73e4f4.  ;-)


Nicolas