We are getting somewhat random soft lockups with this signature:
[ 86.992215] [<fffffc00080935e0>] el1_irq+0xa0/0x10c
[ 86.997082] [<fffffc000841822c>] cursor_timer_handler+0x30/0x54
[ 87.002991] [<fffffc000810ec44>] call_timer_fn+0x54/0x1a8
[ 87.008378] [<fffffc000810ef88>] run_timer_softirq+0x1c4/0x2bc
[ 87.014200] [<fffffc000809077c>] __do_softirq+0x114/0x344
[ 87.019590] [<fffffc00080af45c>] irq_exit+0x74/0x98
[ 87.024458] [<fffffc00080fac20>] __handle_domain_irq+0x98/0xfc
[ 87.030278] [<fffffc000809056c>] gic_handle_irq+0x94/0x190
This is caused by the vt visual_init() function calling into
fbcon_init() with a vc_cur_blink_ms value of zero. This is a
transient condition, as it is later set to a non-zero value. But, if
the timer happens to expire while the blink rate is zero, it goes into
an endless loop, and we get soft lockup.
The fix is to initialize vc_cur_blink_ms before calling the con_init()
function.
Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@cavium.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Tested-by: Ming Lei <ming.lei@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Tested-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
vc_deccolm is only set and never read, remove the member from vc_data.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Namely convert:
* IS_FG -> con_is_fg
* DO_UPDATE -> con_should_update
* CON_IS_VISIBLE -> con_is_visible
DO_UPDATE was a weird name for a yes/no answer, so the new name is
con_should_update.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Jean-Christophe Plagniol-Villard <plagnioj@jcrosoft.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Flush the switch cases to be aligned with the switch. Mostly
everything can now fit to the 80-chars terminal.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Do not opencode max3, use the macro.
Separate commands. Until now, I have not noticed the comma. Make it
one line, one command. And make the code obvious.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The compiler noticed passing structure over stack. Even though rgb is
a small structure, let us define one and pass that over all the
functions wherever needed.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The code with T.416 high colors handling is flushed to the right and
hard to read. Move the code to a separate function and remove code
duplication for foreground & background colors.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It's a macro accessing and changing some local variables. And the code
uses it without appending semicolon which confuses everybody too.
Switch from this bad guy to a sane standard function.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It is never defined. And I spent quite some time looking into the
history and cannot find how this was ever used. Given it was not used
in the history, I doubt it currently works as expected after the years
of changes all over the code.
So kill it.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
It is always called with 0, so remove the parameter and pass the
default down to scrolldelta without checking.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When the console is already registered, stop crawling the
registered_con_driver array and return an error immediatelly.
This makes the code more obvious. And we do not need to initialize
retval anymore.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
When csw->con_startup() fails in do_register_con_driver, we return no
error (i.e. 0). This was changed back in 2006 by commit 3e795de763.
Before that we used to return -ENODEV.
So fix the return value to be -ENODEV in that case again.
Fixes: 3e795de763 ("VT binding: Add binding/unbinding support for the VT console")
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: "Dan Carpenter" <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Every user of default_red, default_grn, and default_blu treats them as
unsigned char. So make it really unsigned char.
And indent the initializers and module_param properly.
This saves ~ 100 bytes of data.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This means all ->con_set_palette have to have the second parameter
const too now.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Some code in vc_allocate is indented by 4 spaces. It is inside a
condition. Invert the condition and move the code to the first
indentation level (using \tab). And insert some empty lines to have
logical code blocks separated.
Then, instead of freeing in an 'if' false branch, use goto-error
label as fail path.
Maybe better to look at this patch with diff -w -b.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
MAX_NR_CONSOLES and MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES are both 63 since they were
introduced in 1.1.54. And since vc_allocate does:
if (currcons >= MAX_NR_CONSOLES)
return -ENXIO;
if (!vc_cons[currcons].d) {
if (currcons >= MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES && !capable(CAP_SYS_RESOURCE))
return -EPERM;
}
the second check is pointless. Remove both the check and the macro
MAX_NR_USER_CONSOLES.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reported-by: Fugang Duan <fugang.duan@nxp.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
add_softcursor() stores the contents of the text buffer position in this
variable before drawing the softcursor, whereas hide_softcursor() writes
the value back. A value of -1 means that no cursor has been drawn and
therefore no character is to be restored. softcursor_original, however,
is only implicitly initialized with 0. Therefore, when hide_softcursor
is called for the first time (console_init -> con_init -> redraw_screen
-> hide_cursor), it wrongly writes 0x0000 in the top left corner of
the text buffer. Normally, this is just as black as the rest of the
screen (vc_video_erase_char) and can't be seen, but it appears as a
black cursor rectangle on non-black backgrounds e.g. with boot option
"vt.global_cursor_default=0 vt.color=0xf0". softcursor_original needs
to be initialized with -1.
Signed-off-by: Melchior FRANZ <mfranz@aon.at>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Here are some small staging driver fixes for 4.5-rc2. One of them
predated 4.4-final, but I missed that merge window due to the holliday.
The others fix reported issues that have come up recently. The tty
change is needed for the speakup driver fix and has the ack of the tty
driver maintainer as well, i.e. myself :)
All have been in linux-next with no reported issues.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Merge tag 'staging-4.5-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging
Pull staging fixes from Greg KH:
"Here are some small staging driver fixes for 4.5-rc2.
One of them predated 4.4-final, but I missed that merge window due to
the holliday. The others fix reported issues that have come up
recently. The tty change is needed for the speakup driver fix and has
the ack of the tty driver maintainer as well, i.e. myself :)
All have been in linux-next with no reported issues"
* tag 'staging-4.5-rc2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging:
Staging: speakup: fix read scrolled-back VT
Staging: speakup: Fix getting port information
Revert "Staging: panel: usleep_range is preferred over udelay"
iio: adis_buffer: Fix out-of-bounds memory access
Previously, speakup would always read the non-scrolled part of the VT,
even when the VT is scrolled back with shift-page. This patch makes
vt.c export screen_pos so that speakup can use it to properly access
the content of the scrolled-back VT.
This was tested with both vgacon and fbcon.
Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>
Reviewed-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This was introduced in
commit 6db4063c5b
Author: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Date: Mon Jun 26 00:27:12 2006 -0700
[PATCH] VT binding: Add sysfs control to the VT layer
with the justification
"In addition, if any of the consoles are in KD_GRAPHICS mode, binding and
unbinding will not succeed. KD_GRAPHICS mode usually indicates that the
underlying console hardware is used for other purposes other than displaying
text (ie X). This feature should prevent binding/unbinding from interfering
with a graphics application using the VT."
I think we should lift this artificial restriction though:
- KD_GRAPHICS doesn't get cleaned up automatically, which means it's
easy to have terminals stuck in KD_GRAPHICS when hacking around on
X.
- X doesn't really care, especially with drm where kms already blocks
fbdev (and hence fbcon) when there's an active compositor.
- This is a root-only interface with a separate .config option and
it's possible to hang your machine already anyway if you
unload/reload drivers and don't know what you're doing.
With this patch i915.ko module reloading works again reliably,
something in the recent fedora upgrades broke things.
Cc: Antonino A. Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Cc: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
Acked-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently there is a lock order problem between the console lock and the
kernfs s_active lock of the console driver's bind sysfs entry. When
writing to the sysfs entry the lock order is first s_active then console
lock, when unregistering the console driver via
do_unregister_con_driver() the order is the opposite. See the below
bugzilla reference for one instance of a lockdep backtrace.
Fix this by unregistering the console driver from a deferred work, where
we can safely drop the console lock while unregistering the device and
corresponding sysfs entries (which in turn acquire s_active). Note that
we have to keep the console driver slot in the registered_con_driver
array reserved for the driver that's being unregistered until it's fully
removed. Otherwise a concurrent call to do_register_con_driver could
try to reuse the same slot and fail when registering the corresponding
device with a minor index that's still in use.
Note that the referenced bug report contains two dmesg logs with two
distinct lockdep reports: [1] is about a locking scenario involving
s_active, console_lock and the fb_notifier list lock, while [2] is
about a locking scenario involving only s_active and console_lock.
In [1] locking fb_notifier triggers the lockdep warning only because
of its dependence on console_lock, otherwise case [1] is the same
s_active<->console_lock dependency problem fixed by this patch.
Before this change we have the following locking scenarios involving
the 3 locks:
a) via do_unregister_framebuffer()->...->do_unregister_con_driver():
1. console lock 2. fb_notifier lock 3. s_active lock
b) for example via give_up_console()->do_unregister_con_driver():
1. console lock 2. s_active lock
c) via vt_bind()/vt_unbind():
1. s_active lock 2. console lock
Since c) is the console bind sysfs entry's write code path we can't
change the locking order there. We can only fix this issue by removing
s_active's dependence on the other two locks in a) and b). We can do
this only in the vt code which owns the corresponding sysfs entry, so
that after the change we have:
a) 1. console lock 2. fb_notifier lock
b) 1. console lock
c) 1. s_active lock 2. console lock
d) in the new con_driver_unregister_callback():
1. s_active lock
[1] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=87716
[2] https://bugs.freedesktop.org/attachment.cgi?id=107602
v2:
- get console_lock earlier in con_driver_unregister_callback(), so we
protect the following console driver field assignments there
- add code coment explaining the reason for deferring the sysfs entry
removal
- add a third paragraph to the commit message explaining why there are
two distinct lockdep reports and that this issue is independent of
fb/fbcon. (Peter Hurley)
v3:
- clarify further the third paragraph
v4:
- rebased on v4 of patch 1/3
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Add an escape sequence to specify the current console's cursor blink
interval. The interval is specified as a number of milliseconds until
the next cursor display state toggle, from 50 to 65535. /proc/loadavg
did not show a difference with a one msec interval, but the lower
bound is set to 50 msecs since slower hardware wasn't tested.
Store the interval in the vc_data structure for later access by fbcon,
initializing the value to fbcon's current hardcoded value of 200 msecs.
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <lkml14@scotdoyle.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Instead of manual calls of device_create_file() and
device_remove_file(), pass the static attribute groups using
device_create_with_groups().
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Converting milliseconds to jiffies by "val * HZ / 1000" is technically
OK but msecs_to_jiffies(val) is the cleaner solution and handles all
corner cases correctly. This is a minor API consolidation only and
should make things more readable.
Signed-off-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <hofrat@osadl.org>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
this patch fixes following sparse warning:
vt.c:1240:12: warning: symbol 'rgb_from_256' was not declared. Should it be static?
Signed-off-by: Lad, Prabhakar <prabhakar.csengg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The vcs device's poll/fasync support relies on the vt notifier to signal
changes to the screen content. Notifier invocations were missing for
changes that comes through the selection interface though. Fix that.
Tested with BRLTTY 5.2.
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
Cc: Dave Mielke <dave@mielke.cc>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Currently vt_bind and vt_unbind access at least the con_driver object
and registered_con_driver array without holding the console lock. Fix
this by locking around the whole function in each case.
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The default console driver (conswitchp) and busy drivers bound to a
console (as reported by con_is_bound()) shouldn't be unregistered.
System console drivers (without the CON_DRIVER_FLAG_MODULE flag) can be
unregistered, provided they are neither default nor busy. The current
code checks for the CON_DRIVER_FLAG_INIT flag but this doesn't make
sense: this flag is set for a driver whenever its associated console's
con_startup() function is called, which first happens when the console
driver is registered (so before the console gets bound) and gets cleared
when the console gets unbound. The purpose of this flag is to show if we
need to call con_startup() on a console before we use it.
Based on the above, do_unregister_con_driver() in its current form will
allow unregistering a console driver only if it was never bound, but
will refuse to unregister one that was bound and later unbound.
Fix this by dropping the CON_DRIVER_FLAG_INIT check, allowing
unregistering of any console driver provided that it's not the default
one and it's not busy.
v2:
- reword the third paragraph to clarify how the fix works (Peter Hurley)
v3:
- unchanged
v4:
- Allow unregistering a system console driver too, needed by i915 to
unregister vgacon. Update commit description accordingly. (Daniel)
Signed-off-by: Imre Deak <imre.deak@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Convert the pr_warning to the more common pr_warn.
Other miscellanea:
o Convert unusual PR_FMT define and uses to pr_fmt
o Remove unnecessary OOM message
o Fix grammar in an error message
o Convert a pr_warning with a KERN_ERR to pr_err
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Commit 68952076e9 ("vt: Remove
vt_get_kmsg_redirect() from uapi header") fails to compile if
!CONFIG_VT_CONSOLE.
Move macro definition for vt_get_kmsg_redirect() up with file-scope
function declarations.
Reported-by: Jim Davis <jim.epost@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
vt_get_kmsg_redirect() only has meaning to the console driver as
an alias for calling vt_kmsg_redirect(). Move the macro definition
to the only source file which uses it; remove from uapi/linux/vt.h
Signed-off-by: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
First round of fixes for 3.16-rc, mostly cc: stable, and the vt/vgacon
fixes from Daniel [1] to avoid hangs and unclaimed register errors on
module load/reload.
* tag 'drm-intel-fixes-2014-06-17' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm-intel:
drm/i915/bdw: remove erroneous chv specific workarounds from bdw code
drm/i915: fix possible refcount leak when resetting forcewake
drm/i915: Reorder semaphore deadlock check
drm/i95: Initialize active ring->pid to -1
drm/i915: set backlight duty cycle after backlight enable for gen4
drm/i915: Avoid div-by-zero when pixel_multiplier is zero
drm/i915: Disable FBC by default also on Haswell and later
drm/i915: Kick out vga console
drm/i915: Fixup global gtt cleanup
vt: Don't ignore unbind errors in vt_unbind
vt: Fix up unregistration of vt drivers
vt: Fix replacement console check when unbinding
Otherwise the loop will never stop since we don't make any
forward progress. Noticed while breaking this accidentally
in a painful attempt to make vga_con unregistering work.
With this patch we'll bail out on the first attempt, which
at least leaves a useful enough system behind for debugging.
Livelocks on console_lock just aren't fun.
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
A bunch of issues:
- We should not kick out the default console (which is tracked in
conswitchp), so check for that.
- Add better error codes so callers can differentiate between "something
went wrong" and "your driver isn't registered already". i915 needs
that so it doesn't fall over when reloading the driver and hence
vga_con is already unregistered.
- There's a mess with the driver flags: What we need to check for is
that the driver isn't used any more, i.e. unbound completely (FLAG_INIT).
And not whether it's the boot console or not (which is the only one
which doesn't have FLAG_MODULE). Otherwise there's no way to kick
out the boot console, which i915 wants to do to prevent havoc with
vga_con interferring (which tends to hang machines).
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
I don't fully understand the magic of the vt register/unregister
logic, but apparently everything but the inital console (as set
in the conswitchp pointer) is marked with FLAG_MODULE. Which means
if something unregistered the boot vt driver (e.g. i915.ko kicking
out vga_con) there's nothing left when trying to unbind e.g. fbcon
through sysfs.
But in most cases have the dummy console hanging around besides the
boot console, so this test is fairly dubious. What we actually want is
simply a different console than the one we want to unbind.
v2: Correct the commit message to clarify that the dummy console isn't
always around, but only in most cases (David).
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
The vc_data.vc_uni_pagedir filed is currently long int, supposedly to
be served generically. This, however, leads to lots of cast to
pointer, and rather it worsens the readability significantly.
Actually, we have now only a single uni_pagedir map implementation,
and this won't change likely. So, it'd be much more simple and
error-prone to just use the exact pointer for struct uni_pagedir
instead of long.
Ditto for vc_uni_pagedir_loc. It's a pointer to the uni_pagedir, thus
it can be changed similarly to the exact type.
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Most other mainstream terminals support "xterm256" colours, which means
people sometimes use these blindly without checking capabilities.
Because of hardware limitations of VGA consoles, colours are downgraded to
16 foregrounds and 8 backgrounds. On fbdev consoles it would be possible
to support them without quality loss, but adding that would require quite a
large amount of code.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
These can be used to send commands consisting of an arbitrary string to the
terminal, most often used to set a terminal's window title or to redefine
the colour palette. Our console doesn't use OSC, unlike everything else,
which can lead to junk being displayed if a process sends such a code
unconditionally.
The rules for termination follow established practice rather than Ecma-48.
Ecma-48 requires the string to use only byte values 0x08..0x0D and
0x20..0x7E, terminated with either ESC \ or 0x9C. This would disallow using
8-bit characters, which are reasonable for example in window titles.
A widespread idiom is to terminate with 0x07. The behaviour for other
control characters differs between terminal emulators, I followed libvte and
xterm:
* 0x07 and ESC anything terminate
* nothing else terminates, all 8-bit values including 0x9C are considered a
part of the string
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
\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 81732c3b2f
Author: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
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@atlas.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This is not a bug on our side, but a misdesign in ITU T.416, yet with
all popular terminals supporting these codes, people consider this to
be a bug in Linux. By breaking the design principles behind SGR codes
(gracefully ignoring unsupported ones should not require knowing about
them), 256 colour ones tend to turn blinking on before invoking an
arbitrary unrelated command.
This commit doesn't add such support, merely skips such codes without
ill effects.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
No modern terminal supports them, and SGR 38 conflicts with detecting
xterm-256 colours. This also makes SGR 39 consistent with other popular
terminals. Neither are used by ncurses' terminfo.
Signed-off-by: Adam Borowski <kilobyte@angband.pl>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The virtual console has (undocumented) module parameters to set the
colors for italic and underlined text, but the default text color was
hardcoded for some reason. This made it impossible to change the color
for startup messages, or to set the default for new virtual consoles.
Add a module parameter for that, and document the entire bunch.
Any hacker who thinks that a command prompt on a "black screen with
white font" is not supicious enough can now use the kernel parameter
vt.color=10 to get a nice, evil green.
Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
