This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vt: Fix secure clear screen to my tty git tree which can be found at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty.git in the tty-linus branch. The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.) The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release. If you have any questions about this process, please let me know. >From 0930b0950a8996aa88b0d2ba4bb2bab27cc36bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: =?UTF-8?q?Petr=20P=C3=ADsa=C5=99?= <petr.pisar@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:01:23 +0100 Subject: vt: Fix secure clear screen MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit \E[3J console code (secure clear screen) needs to update_screen(vc) in order to write-through blanks into off-screen video memory. This has been removed accidentally in 3.6 by: commit 81732c3b2fede049a692e58a7ceabb6d18ffb18c Author: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@xxxxxxx> Date: Thu Sep 6 19:24:13 2012 +0200 tty vt: Fix line garbage in virtual console on command line edition Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <petr.pisar@xxxxxxxx> Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # 3.6 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c index 61b1137d7e56..23b5d32954bf 100644 --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -1164,6 +1164,8 @@ static void csi_J(struct vc_data *vc, int vpar) scr_memsetw(vc->vc_screenbuf, vc->vc_video_erase_char, vc->vc_screenbuf_size >> 1); set_origin(vc); + if (CON_IS_VISIBLE(vc)) + update_screen(vc); /* fall through */ case 2: /* erase whole display */ count = vc->vc_cols * vc->vc_rows; -- 1.8.5.1.163.gd7aced9 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html