From: Scot Doyle <redacted>

3.12-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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commit 009e39ae44f4191188aeb6dfbf661b771dbbe515 upstream.

When resizing a vt its selection may exceed the new size, resulting in
an invalid memory access [1]. Clear the selection before resizing.

[1] http://lkml.kernel.org/r/CACT4Y+acDTwy4umEvf5ROBGiRJNrxHN4Cn5szCXE5Jw-d1B=Xw@mail.gmail.com

Reported-and-tested-by: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Scot Doyle <redacted>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <redacted>
---
 drivers/tty/vt/vt.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index 19aba5091408..d52e653076f4 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c

@@ -867,6 +867,9 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
 	if (!newscreen)
 		return -ENOMEM;
 
+	if (vc == sel_cons)
+		clear_selection();
+
 	old_rows = vc->vc_rows;
 	old_row_size = vc->vc_size_row;
 

-- 
2.10.2