vt: fix scrollback flushing on background consoles

Commit a6dbe4427559 ("vt: perform safe console erase in the right
order") provided fixes to an earlier commit by gathering all console
scrollback flushing operations in a function of its own. This includes
the invocation of vc_sw->con_switch() as previously done through a
update_screen() call. That commit failed to carry over the
con_is_visible() conditional though, as well as cursor handling, which
caused problems when "\e[3J" was written to a background console.

One could argue for preserving the call to update_screen(). However
this does far more than we need, and it is best to remove scrollback
assumptions from it. Instead let's gather the minimum needed to actually
perform scrollback flushing properly in that one place.

While at it, let's document the vc_sw->con_switch() side effect being
relied upon.

Signed-off-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net>
Reported-and-tested-by: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/nycvar.YSQ.7.76.2001281205560.1655@knanqh.ubzr
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 35d21cdb60d0b82b0c786c235b7b873409efc774..0cfbb7182b5a592aa1519a033ce92f591066c2bb 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -936,10 +936,21 @@ static void flush_scrollback(struct vc_data *vc)
        WARN_CONSOLE_UNLOCKED();
 
        set_origin(vc);
-       if (vc->vc_sw->con_flush_scrollback)
+       if (vc->vc_sw->con_flush_scrollback) {
                vc->vc_sw->con_flush_scrollback(vc);
-       else
+       } else if (con_is_visible(vc)) {
+               /*
+                * When no con_flush_scrollback method is provided then the
+                * legacy way for flushing the scrollback buffer is to use
+                * a side effect of the con_switch method. We do it only on
+                * the foreground console as background consoles have no
+                * scrollback buffers in that case and we obviously don't
+                * want to switch to them.
+                */
+               hide_cursor(vc);
                vc->vc_sw->con_switch(vc);
+               set_cursor(vc);
+       }
 }
 
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