This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    vt: Fix secure clear screen

to the 3.12-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     vt-fix-secure-clear-screen.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From 0930b0950a8996aa88b0d2ba4bb2bab27cc36bc7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Petr Písař <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:01:23 +0100
Subject: vt: Fix secure clear screen

From: Petr Písař <[email protected]>

commit 0930b0950a8996aa88b0d2ba4bb2bab27cc36bc7 upstream.

\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 81732c3b2fede049a692e58a7ceabb6d18ffb18c
Author: Jean-François Moine <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -1164,6 +1164,8 @@ static void csi_J(struct vc_data *vc, in
                        scr_memsetw(vc->vc_screenbuf, vc->vc_video_erase_char,
                                    vc->vc_screenbuf_size >> 1);
                        set_origin(vc);
+                       if (CON_IS_VISIBLE(vc))
+                               update_screen(vc);
                        /* fall through */
                case 2: /* erase whole display */
                        count = vc->vc_cols * vc->vc_rows;


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-3.12/vt-fix-secure-clear-screen.patch
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