linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual

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Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 15:52:31 +0200
From:   Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@...sung.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual_init() after
 failed memory allocation

On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
> 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"

I've seen this crash twice in ours customer environment under low
memory conditions.
There is a report in Debian bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=804443
and LKML bug report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/18/591

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Grzegorz