Commit cb00e99c authored by Robin Getz's avatar Robin Getz Committed by Linus Torvalds

fix - ensure we don't use bootconsoles after init has been released

Gerd Hoffmann pointed out that my patch from yesterday can lead
to a null pointer dereference if the kernel is booted with no
console, and no earlyprintk defined. This fixes that issue.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRobin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 15f6ddc7
...@@ -1085,10 +1085,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_console); ...@@ -1085,10 +1085,12 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(unregister_console);
static int __init disable_boot_consoles(void) static int __init disable_boot_consoles(void)
{ {
if (console_drivers->flags & CON_BOOT) { if (console_drivers != NULL) {
printk(KERN_INFO "turn off boot console %s%d\n", if (console_drivers->flags & CON_BOOT) {
console_drivers->name, console_drivers->index); printk(KERN_INFO "turn off boot console %s%d\n",
return unregister_console(console_drivers); console_drivers->name, console_drivers->index);
return unregister_console(console_drivers);
}
} }
return 0; return 0;
} }
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