[PATCH 1/2] console: Remove dummy con_font_op() callback implementations

Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Nov 6 10:50:58 UTC 2020


On Sat, Oct 31, 2020 at 03:24:41AM -0400, Peilin Ye wrote:
> `struct console_font` is a UAPI structure, thus ideally should not be
> used for kernel internal abstraction. Remove some dummy .con_font_set,
> .con_font_default and .con_font_copy `struct consw` callback
> implementations, to make it cleaner.
> 
> Patch "fbcon: Prevent global-out-of-bounds read in fbcon_copy_font()"
> depends on this patch, so Cc: stable.
> 
> Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
> Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Peilin Ye <yepeilin.cs at gmail.com>
> ---
> Context: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAKMK7uFY2zv0adjKJ_ORVFT7Zzwn075MaU0rEU7_FuqENLR=UA@mail.gmail.com/
> 
>  drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/sisusb_con.c | 21 ---------------------
>  drivers/video/console/dummycon.c        | 20 --------------------
>  2 files changed, 41 deletions(-)

Reviewed-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>


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