This is the same issue that was fixed for the VGA text buffer in commit 39cdb68c64d8 ("vt: fix memory overlapping when deleting chars in the buffer"). The cure is also the same i.e. replace memcpy() with memmove() due to the overlaping buffers. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxx> --- >From v1: spell out the actual change in the commit log. diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 156efda7c8..38a765eadb 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ static void vc_uniscr_delete(struct vc_data *vc, unsigned int nr) u32 *ln = vc->vc_uni_lines[vc->state.y]; unsigned int x = vc->state.x, cols = vc->vc_cols; - memcpy(&ln[x], &ln[x + nr], (cols - x - nr) * sizeof(*ln)); + memmove(&ln[x], &ln[x + nr], (cols - x - nr) * sizeof(*ln)); memset32(&ln[cols - nr], ' ', nr); } } -- 2.44.0