diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index d497208b43f4..f4ac5ec5dc02 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -883,8 +883,25 @@ static int vc_do_resize(struct tty_struct *tty, struct vc_data *vc,
 	new_row_size = new_cols << 1;
 	new_screen_size = new_row_size * new_rows;
 
-	if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows)
-		return 0;
+	if (new_cols == vc->vc_cols && new_rows == vc->vc_rows) {
+		/*
+		 * This function is being called here to cover the case
+		 * where the userspace calls the FBIOPUT_VSCREENINFO twice,
+		 * passing the same fb_var_screeninfo containing the fields
+		 * yres/xres equal to a number non-multiple of vc_font.height
+		 * and yres_virtual/xres_virtual equal to number lesser than the
+		 * vc_font.height and yres/xres.
+		 * In the second call, the struct fb_var_screeninfo isn't
+		 * being modified by the underlying driver because of the
+		 * if above, and this causes the fbcon_display->vrows to become
+		 * negative and it eventually leads to out-of-bound
+		 * access by the imageblit function.
+		 * To give the correct values to the struct and to not have
+		 * to deal with possible errors from the code below, we call
+		 * the resize_screen here as well.
+		 */
+		return resize_screen(vc, new_cols, new_rows, user);
+	}
 
 	if (new_screen_size > KMALLOC_MAX_SIZE || !new_screen_size)
 		return -EINVAL;