This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
vt: Fix secure clear screen
to the 3.13-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-3.13 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-3.13/vt-fix-secure-clear-screen.patch
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