Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2018 11:46:07 -0500 (EST)
From: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org>
To: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com>
cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] console/dummy: leave .con_font_get set to NULL
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On Mon, 15 Jan 2018, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote:

> On Friday, January 05, 2018 04:42:58 PM Nicolas Pitre wrote:
> > 
> > When this method is set, the caller expects struct console_font fields
> > to be properly initialized when it returns. Leave it unset otherwise
> > nonsensical (leaked kernel stack) values are returned to user space.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org>
> > Cc: stable@kernel.org
> 
> Please check your patches with tools/checkpatch.pl script:
> 
> ERROR: The 'stable' address should be 'stable@vger.kernel.org'
> #9: 
> Cc: stable@kernel.org

Oops. I cut and pasted it it from commit ea0ee33988778fb73e4f4.  ;-)


Nicolas