diff --git a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
index ef95c6c1698f..61b1137d7e56 100644
--- a/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
+++ b/drivers/tty/vt/vt.c
@@ -1300,6 +1300,28 @@ static void csi_m(struct vc_data *vc)
 			case 27:
 				vc->vc_reverse = 0;
 				break;
+			case 38:
+			case 48: /* ITU T.416
+				  * Higher colour modes.
+				  * They break the usual properties of SGR codes
+				  * and thus need to be detected and ignored by
+				  * hand.  Strictly speaking, that standard also
+				  * wants : rather than ; as separators, contrary
+				  * to ECMA-48, but no one produces such codes
+				  * and almost no one accepts them.
+				  */
+				i++;
+				if (i > vc->vc_npar)
+					break;
+				if (vc->vc_par[i] == 5)      /* 256 colours */
+					i++;                 /* ubiquitous */
+				else if (vc->vc_par[i] == 2) /* 24 bit colours */
+					i += 3;              /* extremely rare */
+				/* Subcommands 3 (CMY) and 4 (CMYK) are so insane
+				 * that detecting them is not worth the few extra
+				 * bytes of kernel's size.
+				 */
+				break;
 			case 39:
 				vc->vc_color = (vc->vc_def_color & 0x0f) | (vc->vc_color & 0xf0);
 				break;