This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
tty: vt, consw->con_scrolldelta cleanup
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
tty-vt-consw-con_scrolldelta-cleanup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From 97293de977365fe672daec2523e66ef457104921 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2016 13:34:26 +0200
Subject: tty: vt, consw->con_scrolldelta cleanup
From: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
commit 97293de977365fe672daec2523e66ef457104921 upstream.
* allow NULL consw->con_scrolldelta (some consoles define an empty
hook)
* => remove empty hooks now
* return value of consw->con_scrolldelta is never checked => make the
function void
* document consw->con_scrolldelta a bit
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
Cc: "James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-parisc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: Ajay Kaher <akaher@xxxxxxxxxx>
[ for 4.4.y backport, only do the first change above, to prevent
.con_scrolldelta from being called if not present - gregkh]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -2484,7 +2484,7 @@ static void console_callback(struct work
if (scrollback_delta) {
struct vc_data *vc = vc_cons[fg_console].d;
clear_selection();
- if (vc->vc_mode == KD_TEXT)
+ if (vc->vc_mode == KD_TEXT && vc->vc_sw->con_scrolldelta)
vc->vc_sw->con_scrolldelta(vc, scrollback_delta);
scrollback_delta = 0;
}
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from jirislaby@xxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.4/tty-vt-consw-con_scrolldelta-cleanup.patch
