If you run aptitude on framebuffer console, the display is corrupted. The corruption is caused by the commit d8ae7242. The patch adds "offset" to "start" when calling scr_memsetw, but it forgets to do the same addition on a subsequent call to do_update_region.
Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpato...@redhat.com> Fixes: d8ae72427187 ("vt: preserve unicode values corresponding to screen characters") Cc: sta...@vger.kernel.org # 4.19 --- drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux-2.6/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c 2018-10-23 16:15:08.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c 2018-10-23 16:29:20.000000000 +0200 @@ -1551,7 +1551,7 @@ static void csi_K(struct vc_data *vc, in scr_memsetw(start + offset, vc->vc_video_erase_char, 2 * count); vc->vc_need_wrap = 0; if (con_should_update(vc)) - do_update_region(vc, (unsigned long) start, count); + do_update_region(vc, (unsigned long)(start + offset), count); } static void csi_X(struct vc_data *vc, int vpar) /* erase the following vpar positions */