\E[3J console code (secure clear screen) needs to update_screen(vc)
in order to write-through blanks into off-screen video memory.
This has been removed accidentally in 3.6 by:
commit
81732c3b2fede049a692e58a7ceabb6d18ffb18c
Author: Jean-François Moine <moinejf@free.fr>
Date: Thu Sep 6 19:24:13 2012 +0200
tty vt: Fix line garbage in virtual console on command line edition
Signed-off-by: Petr Písař <petr.pisar@atlas.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> # 3.6
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
scr_memsetw(vc->vc_screenbuf, vc->vc_video_erase_char,
vc->vc_screenbuf_size >> 1);
set_origin(vc);
+ if (CON_IS_VISIBLE(vc))
+ update_screen(vc);
/* fall through */
case 2: /* erase whole display */
count = vc->vc_cols * vc->vc_rows;