This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drivers/tty/hvc: don't free hvc_console_setup after init
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 501fed45b7e8836ee9373f4d31e2d85e3db6103a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 May 2014 18:58:24 -0400
Subject: drivers/tty/hvc: don't free hvc_console_setup after init
When 'console=hvc0' is specified to the kernel parameter in x86 KVM guest,
hvc console is setup within a kthread. However, that will cause SEGV
and the boot will fail when the driver is builtin to the kernel,
because currently hvc_console_setup() is annotated with '__init'. This
patch removes '__init' to boot the guest successfully with 'console=hvc0'.
Signed-off-by: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx>
Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
index 94f9e3a38412..0ff7fda0742f 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c
@@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static struct tty_driver *hvc_console_device(struct console *c, int *index)
return hvc_driver;
}
-static int __init hvc_console_setup(struct console *co, char *options)
+static int hvc_console_setup(struct console *co, char *options)
{
if (co->index < 0 || co->index >= MAX_NR_HVC_CONSOLES)
return -ENODEV;
--
1.9.0
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