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 the 3.14-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: drivers-tty-hvc-don-t-free-hvc_console_setup-after-init.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.14 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >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 From: Tomoki Sekiyama <tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx> commit 501fed45b7e8836ee9373f4d31e2d85e3db6103a upstream. 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> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c +++ b/drivers/tty/hvc/hvc_console.c @@ -190,7 +190,7 @@ static struct tty_driver *hvc_console_de 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; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tomoki.sekiyama@xxxxxxx are queue-3.14/drivers-tty-hvc-don-t-free-hvc_console_setup-after-init.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