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authorDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2022-07-01 09:27:28 +1000
committerDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>2022-07-01 09:27:55 +1000
commitb8f0009bc9edf9186b20ae2a9e442ef0af93040e (patch)
treeee69b7603ae091238e62ff7e7666da3e2ecbb517 /drivers/video
parent078a3be79325e4a5e7e16576b3919999efadfa3f (diff)
parentee7a69aa38d87a3bbced7b8245c732c05ed0c6ec (diff)
Merge tag 'drm-misc-fixes-2022-06-30' of git://anongit.freedesktop.org/drm/drm-misc into drm-fixes
A NULL pointer dereference fix for vc4, and 3 patches to improve the sysfb device behaviour when removing conflicting framebuffers Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> From: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220630072404.2fa4z3nk5h5q34ci@houat
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c12
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index afa2863670f3..8afc4538558c 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
#include <linux/kernel.h>
#include <linux/major.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/sysfb.h>
#include <linux/mm.h>
#include <linux/mman.h>
#include <linux/vt.h>
@@ -1752,6 +1753,17 @@ int remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
do_free = true;
}
+ /*
+ * If a driver asked to unregister a platform device registered by
+ * sysfb, then can be assumed that this is a driver for a display
+ * that is set up by the system firmware and has a generic driver.
+ *
+ * Drivers for devices that don't have a generic driver will never
+ * ask for this, so let's assume that a real driver for the display
+ * was already probed and prevent sysfb to register devices later.
+ */
+ sysfb_disable();
+
mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(a, name, primary);
mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);