# Re: \[PATCH\] vt/fbcon: deinitialize resources in visual\_init() after failed memory allocation

- From: Grzegorz Halat \<hidden\>
- Date: 2019-05-24 13:52:45 
- List: linux-fbdev
- Page: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2019/05/5607251
- Thread: https://ratatoskr.run/linux-fbdev/2019/04/5581501/t.md

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On Fri, 24 May 2019 at 10:06, Greg Kroah-Hartman
[ref] wrote:
> How?  How are you triggering a memory allocation failure in a "normal"
> system?
> Anyway, I'll queue this up, but it really does not seem like anything
> anyone would see "in the wild"

I've seen this crash twice in ours customer environment under low
memory conditions.
There is a report in Debian bug tracker:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug€4443
and LKML bug report:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/12/18/591

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Grzegorz
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