If a zero for the number of colums or rows manages to slip through, gotoxy() will underflow vc->vc_pos, causing the next action on the referenced memory to end with a page fault. Make the check in vgacon_startup() more pessimistic to prevent that. Signed-off-by: Jan H. Schönherr <jschoenh@xxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/video/console/vgacon.c | 5 ++--- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c index dc06cb6..445b1dc 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/vgacon.c @@ -398,9 +398,8 @@ static const char *vgacon_startup(void) #endif } - /* boot_params.screen_info initialized? */ - if ((screen_info.orig_video_mode == 0) && - (screen_info.orig_video_lines == 0) && + /* boot_params.screen_info reasonably initialized? */ + if ((screen_info.orig_video_lines == 0) || (screen_info.orig_video_cols == 0)) goto no_vga; -- 2.3.1.dirty -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
