This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled vt: Fix secure clear screen to the 3.10-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: vt-fix-secure-clear-screen.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 0930b0950a8996aa88b0d2ba4bb2bab27cc36bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Petr Písař <petr.pisar@xxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:01:23 +0100 Subject: vt: Fix secure clear screen From: Petr Písař <petr.pisar@xxxxxxxx> commit 0930b0950a8996aa88b0d2ba4bb2bab27cc36bc7 upstream. \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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c +++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c @@ -1164,6 +1164,8 @@ static void csi_J(struct vc_data *vc, in 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; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from petr.pisar@xxxxxxxx are queue-3.10/vt-fix-secure-clear-screen.patch -- 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