linux-kernel - [PATCH 3.16 056/202] vt: invoke notifier on screen size change

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Message-ID: <lsq.1556377989.824795356@decadent.org.uk>
Date:   Sat, 27 Apr 2019 16:13:09 +0100
From:   Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, stable@...r.kernel.org
CC:     akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Denis Kirjanov <kda@...ux-powerpc.org>,
        "Nicolas Pitre" <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>,
        "Greg Kroah-Hartman" <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        "Nicolas Pitre" <nico@...aro.org>
Subject: [PATCH 3.16 056/202] vt: invoke notifier on screen size change

3.16.66-rc1 review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@...aro.org>

commit 0c9b1965faddad7534b6974b5b36c4ad37998f8e upstream.

User space using poll() on /dev/vcs devices are not awaken when a
screen size change occurs. Let's fix that.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@...aro.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@...adent.org.uk>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -953,6 +953,7 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struc
 	if (CON_IS_VISIBLE(vc))
 		update_screen(vc);
 	vt_event_post(VT_EVENT_RESIZE, vc->vc_num, vc->vc_num);
+	notify_update(vc);
 	return err;
 }