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commit75ddbc1fb1upstream. Previously, in the userspace, it was possible to use the "setterm" command from util-linux to blank the VT console by default, using the following command. According to the man page, > The force option keeps the screen blank even if a key is pressed. It was implemented by calling TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN. case BLANKSCREEN: ioctlarg = TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN; if (ioctl(STDIN_FILENO, TIOCLINUX, &ioctlarg)) warn(_("cannot force blank")); break; However, after Linux 4.12, this command ceased to work anymore, which is unexpected. By inspecting the kernel source, it shows that the issue was triggered by the side-effect from commita4199f5eb8("tty: Disable default console blanking interval"). The console blanking is implemented by function do_blank_screen() in vt.c: "blank_state" will be initialized to "blank_normal_wait" in con_init() if AND ONLY IF ("blankinterval" > 0). If "blankinterval" is 0, "blank_state" will be "blank_off" (== 0), and a call to do_blank_screen() will always abort, even if a forced blanking is required from the user by calling TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN, the console won't be blanked. This behavior is unexpected from a user's point-of-view, since it's not mentioned in any documentation. The setterm man page suggests it will always work, and the kernel comments in uapi/linux/tiocl.h says > /* keep screen blank even if a key is pressed */ > #define TIOCL_BLANKSCREEN 14 To fix it, we simply remove the "blank_state != blank_off" check, as pointed out by Nicolas Pitre, this check doesn't logically make sense and it's safe to remove. Suggested-by: Nicolas Pitre <nicolas.pitre@linaro.org> Fixes:a4199f5eb8("tty: Disable default console blanking interval") Signed-off-by: Yifeng Li <tomli@tomli.me> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.