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

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Message-ID: <20190524150833.GA10297@kroah.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 May 2019 17:08:33 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Grzegorz Halat <ghalat@...hat.com>
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, May 24, 2019 at 03:52:31PM +0200, Grzegorz Halat wrote:
> 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

Ok, now queued up to go to Linus for 5.2-final.

thanks,

greg k-h