From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762038Ab2COSzV (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:55:21 -0400 Received: from mail-pz0-f46.google.com ([209.85.210.46]:48286 "EHLO mail-pz0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754919Ab2COSzS (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2012 14:55:18 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2012 11:55:14 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Liz Clark Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] TTY: Wrong unicode value copied in con_set_unimap() Message-ID: <20120315185514.GB11142@kroah.com> References: <1331832809-4484-1-git-send-email-liz.clark@hp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1331832809-4484-1-git-send-email-liz.clark@hp.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 10:33:29AM -0700, Liz Clark wrote: > Bugzilla 40012: PIO_UNIMAP bug: error updating Unicode-to-font map > > The unicode font map for the virtual console is a 32x32x64 table which > allocates rows dynamically as entries are added. The unicode value > increases sequentially and should count all entries even in empty > rows. The defect is when copying the unicode font map in con_set_unimap(), > the unicode value is not incremented properly. The wrong unicode value > is entered in the new font map. > > Signed-off-by: Liz Clark Is this a new problem caused by recent changes in this area, or has it always been there and needs to be backported to older kernels to solve the problem there? thanks, greg k-h