This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summ...

The filename of the patch is: fbdev-fix-unregistering-of-framebuffers-without-device.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let stable@vger.kernel.org know about it.

From 0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001

From: Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2022 21:44:02 +0200 Subject: fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

From: Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de

commit 0f525289ff0ddeb380813bd81e0f9bdaaa1c9078 upstream.

OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference. An example error message on ppc64le is shown below.

BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at 0x00000060 Faulting instruction address: 0xc00000000080dfa4 Oops: Kernel access of bad area, sig: 11 [#1] LE PAGE_SIZE=64K MMU=Hash SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA pSeries [...] CPU: 2 PID: 139 Comm: systemd-udevd Not tainted 5.17.0-ae085d7f9365 #1 NIP: c00000000080dfa4 LR: c00000000080df9c CTR: c000000000797430 REGS: c000000004132fe0 TRAP: 0300 Not tainted (5.17.0-ae085d7f9365) MSR: 8000000002009033 <SF,VEC,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE> CR: 28228282 XER: 20000000 CFAR: c00000000000c80c DAR: 0000000000000060 DSISR: 40000000 IRQMASK: 0 GPR00: c00000000080df9c c000000004133280 c00000000169d200 0000000000000029 GPR04: 00000000ffffefff c000000004132f90 c000000004132f88 0000000000000000 GPR08: c0000000015658f8 c0000000015cd200 c0000000014f57d0 0000000048228283 GPR12: 0000000000000000 c00000003fffe300 0000000020000000 0000000000000000 GPR16: 0000000000000000 0000000113fc4a40 0000000000000005 0000000113fcfb80 GPR20: 000001000f7283b0 0000000000000000 c000000000e4a588 c000000000e4a5b0 GPR24: 0000000000000001 00000000000a0000 c008000000db0168 c0000000021f6ec0 GPR28: c0000000016d65a8 c000000004b36460 0000000000000000 c0000000016d64b0 NIP [c00000000080dfa4] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x184/0x1d0 [c000000004133280] [c00000000080df9c] do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x17c/0x1d0 (unreliable) [c000000004133350] [c00000000080e4d0] remove_conflicting_framebuffers+0x60/0x150 [c0000000041333a0] [c00000000080e6f4] remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x134/0x1b0 [c000000004133450] [c008000000e70438] drm_aperture_remove_conflicting_pci_framebuffers+0x90/0x100 [drm] [c000000004133490] [c008000000da0ce4] bochs_pci_probe+0x6c/0xa64 [bochs] [...] [c000000004133db0] [c00000000002aaa0] system_call_exception+0x170/0x2d0 [c000000004133e10] [c00000000000c3cc] system_call_common+0xec/0x250

The bug [1] was introduced by commit 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal"). Most firmware framebuffers have an underlying platform device, which can be hot-unplugged before loading the native graphics driver. OF framebuffers do not (yet) have that device. Fix the code by unregistering the framebuffer as before without a hot unplug.

Tested with 5.17 on qemu ppc64le emulation.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann tzimmermann@suse.de Fixes: 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal") Reported-by: Sudip Mukherjee sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com Tested-by: Sudip Mukherjee sudip.mukherjee@codethink.co.uk Cc: Zack Rusin zackr@vmware.com Cc: Javier Martinez Canillas javierm@redhat.com Cc: Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # v5.11+ Cc: Helge Deller deller@gmx.de Cc: Daniel Vetter daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch Cc: Sam Ravnborg sam@ravnborg.org Cc: Zheyu Ma zheyuma97@gmail.com Cc: Xiyu Yang xiyuyang19@fudan.edu.cn Cc: Zhen Lei thunder.leizhen@huawei.com Cc: Matthew Wilcox willy@infradead.org Cc: Alex Deucher alexander.deucher@amd.com Cc: Tetsuo Handa penguin-kernel@i-love.sakura.ne.jp Cc: Guenter Roeck linux@roeck-us.net Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/YkHXO6LGHAN0p1pq@debian/ # [1] Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220404194402.29974-1-tzimmer... Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org --- drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c @@ -1581,7 +1581,14 @@ static void do_remove_conflicting_frameb * If it's not a platform device, at least print a warning. A * fix would add code to remove the device from the system. */ - if (dev_is_platform(device)) { + if (!device) { + /* TODO: Represent each OF framebuffer as its own + * device in the device hierarchy. For now, offb + * doesn't have such a device, so unregister the + * framebuffer as before without warning. + */ + do_unregister_framebuffer(registered_fb[i]); + } else if (dev_is_platform(device)) { registered_fb[i]->forced_out = true; platform_device_unregister(to_platform_device(device)); } else {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tzimmermann@suse.de are

queue-5.15/fbdev-fix-unregistering-of-framebuffers-without-device.patch