[GIT PULL] fbdev fixes for v6.2-rc3

Helge Deller deller at gmx.de
Thu Jan 5 10:31:17 UTC 2023


On 1/5/23 11:22, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 09:14, Helge Deller <deller at gmx.de> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Linus,
>>
>> please pull the fbdev driver updates for 6.2-rc3, to receive
>> fixes for matroxfb, offb, omapfb and fbmem.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Helge
>>
>> ----
>>
>> The following changes since commit 1b929c02afd37871d5afb9d498426f83432e71c2:
>>
>>    Linux 6.2-rc1 (2022-12-25 13:41:39 -0800)
>>
>> are available in the Git repository at:
>>
>>    http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git tags/fbdev-for-6.2-rc3
>>
>> for you to fetch changes up to 764043cccd7232a783753a612d628fc0cb7854be:
>>
>>    fbdev: omapfb: avoid stack overflow warning (2023-01-04 19:09:40 +0100)
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> fbdev updates for kernel 6.2-rc3:
>>
>> - Fix Matrox G200eW initialization failure
>> - Fix build failure of offb driver when built as module
>> - Optimize stack usage in omapfb
>> - Prevent use-after-free in fbmem
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------
>> Arnd Bergmann (1):
>>        fbdev: omapfb: avoid stack overflow warning
>>
>> Hang Zhang (1):
>>        fbdev: fbmem: prevent potential use-after-free issues with console_lock()
>
> I looked at this, and even by fbdev locking standards this makes
> absolutely no sense to me. I think this should be dropped before we've
> reached some sort of conclusion on what is going on, or whether this
> is just pure static checker conjecture without fully understanding how
> this is supposed to work really.
> -Daniel

Sure.

I'll send a new pull request where this patch is dropped.

Thanks!
Helge


>
>> Paul Menzel (1):
>>        fbdev: matroxfb: G200eW: Increase max memory from 1 MB to 16 MB
>>
>> Randy Dunlap (1):
>>        fbdev: make offb driver tristate
>>
>> Xu Panda (2):
>>        fbdev: omapfb: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
>>        fbdev: atyfb: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
>>
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig                |  4 ++--
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c       |  3 +--
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c           |  2 ++
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c |  4 ++--
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/omap/omapfb_main.c     |  5 ++---
>>   drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
>>   6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
>
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