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* [PATCH v2] fbdev: Prevent probing generic drivers if a FB is already registered
@ 2021-11-11 11:11 Javier Martinez Canillas
  2021-11-11 11:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
  2021-11-15 16:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
  0 siblings, 2 replies; 8+ messages in thread
From: Javier Martinez Canillas @ 2021-11-11 11:11 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linux-kernel
  Cc: Thomas Zimmermann, Sam Ravnborg, Peter Jones, Daniel Vetter,
	dri-devel, linux-fbdev, Hans de Goede, Ilya Trukhanov,
	Thorsten Leemhuis, Javier Martinez Canillas, Borislav Petkov,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman

The efifb and simplefb drivers just render to a pre-allocated frame buffer
and rely on the display hardware being initialized before the kernel boots.

But if another driver already probed correctly and registered a fbdev, the
generic drivers shouldn't be probed since an actual driver for the display
hardware is already present.

This is more likely to occur after commit d391c5827107 ("drivers/firmware:
move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support") since the "efi-framebuffer"
and "simple-framebuffer" platform devices are registered at a later time.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211110200253.rfudkt3edbd3nsyj@lahvuun/
Fixes: d391c5827107 ("drivers/firmware: move x86 Generic System Framebuffers support")
Reported-by: Ilya Trukhanov <lahvuun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
---

Changes in v2:
- Add a Link: tag with a reference to the bug report (Thorsten Leemhuis).
- Add a comment explaining why the probe fails earlier (Daniel Vetter).
- Add a Fixes: tag for stable to pick the fix (Daniel Vetter).
- Add Daniel Vetter's Reviewed-by: tag.
- Improve the commit message and mention the culprit commit

 drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c    | 11 +++++++++++
 drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c | 11 +++++++++++
 2 files changed, 22 insertions(+)

diff --git drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
index edca3703b964..ea42ba6445b2 100644
--- drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
+++ drivers/video/fbdev/efifb.c
@@ -351,6 +351,17 @@ static int efifb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 	char *option = NULL;
 	efi_memory_desc_t md;
 
+	/*
+	 * Generic drivers must not be registered if a framebuffer exists.
+	 * If a native driver was probed, the display hardware was already
+	 * taken and attempting to use the system framebuffer is dangerous.
+	 */
+	if (num_registered_fb > 0) {
+		dev_err(&dev->dev,
+			"efifb: a framebuffer is already registered\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (screen_info.orig_video_isVGA != VIDEO_TYPE_EFI || pci_dev_disabled)
 		return -ENODEV;
 
diff --git drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
index 62f0ded70681..b63074fd892e 100644
--- drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
+++ drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
@@ -407,6 +407,17 @@ static int simplefb_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
 	struct simplefb_par *par;
 	struct resource *mem;
 
+	/*
+	 * Generic drivers must not be registered if a framebuffer exists.
+	 * If a native driver was probed, the display hardware was already
+	 * taken and attempting to use the system framebuffer is dangerous.
+	 */
+	if (num_registered_fb > 0) {
+		dev_err(&pdev->dev,
+			"simplefb: a framebuffer is already registered\n");
+		return -EINVAL;
+	}
+
 	if (fb_get_options("simplefb", NULL))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
-- 
2.33.1


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2021-11-11 11:39 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-11-12 16:12   ` Daniel Vetter
2021-11-15 16:20 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2021-11-16  9:30   ` Javier Martinez Canillas
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