[PATCH] drm: fix fb-helper vs MST dangling connector ptrs

Rob Clark robdclark at gmail.com
Fri Jan 23 08:12:50 PST 2015


VT switch back/forth from console to xserver (for example) has potential
to go horribly wrong if a dynamic DP MST connector ends up in the saved
modeset that is restored when switching back to fbcon.

When removing a dynamic connector, don't forget to clean up the saved
state.

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1184968
Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark at gmail.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index 52ce26d..ff98b31 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -145,6 +145,25 @@ int drm_fb_helper_add_one_connector(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper, struct drm_
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_add_one_connector);
 
+static void remove_from_modeset(struct drm_mode_set *set,
+		struct drm_connector *connector)
+{
+	int i, j;
+
+	for (i = 0; i < set->num_connectors; i++) {
+		if (set->connectors[i] == connector)
+			break;
+	}
+
+	if (i == set->num_connectors)
+		return;
+
+	for (j = i + 1; j < set->num_connectors; j++) {
+		set->connectors[j - 1] = set->connectors[j];
+	}
+	set->num_connectors--;
+}
+
 int drm_fb_helper_remove_one_connector(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
 				       struct drm_connector *connector)
 {
@@ -167,6 +186,11 @@ int drm_fb_helper_remove_one_connector(struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper,
 	}
 	fb_helper->connector_count--;
 	kfree(fb_helper_connector);
+
+	/* also cleanup dangling references to the connector: */
+	for (i = 0; i < fb_helper->crtc_count; i++)
+		remove_from_modeset(&fb_helper->crtc_info[i].mode_set, connector);
+
 	return 0;
 }
 EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_fb_helper_remove_one_connector);
-- 
2.1.0



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