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From: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2017 16:32:11 +0100
Subject: libconsole: never return empty list from getconsoles()
Git-commit: d7fe84cd6198c4acc00a59d7c403fe6bdc3f509a
References: bsc#1071568
Upstream: merged

getconsoles() users expect that they get a non-empty list of consoles.
Otherwise, they might access an invalid memory.

There is an attempt to create fallback to /dev/console but it is
used (assigned to *cons) only when the corresponding consalloc()
passes. Otherwise, we should printk an error and exit.

Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>
---
 libconsole/console.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/libconsole/console.c b/libconsole/console.c
index 2c6bbac8989f..2f6e0b1d56d9 100644
--- a/libconsole/console.c
+++ b/libconsole/console.c
@@ -662,8 +662,10 @@ err:
     if (!tty)
 	error("can not allocate string");
 
-    if (consalloc(&c, tty, CON_CONSDEV, makedev(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 1), io))
-	*cons = c;
+    if (!consalloc(&c, tty, CON_CONSDEV, makedev(TTYAUX_MAJOR, 1), io))
+	error("/dev/console is not a valid fallback\n");
+
+    *cons = c;
 }
 
 /*
-- 
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