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| author | Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> | 2013-01-25 10:28:15 +1000 |
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| committer | Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> | 2013-02-08 12:02:40 +1000 |
| commit | 50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114 (patch) | |
| tree | de59e5f228a256ad09521524639e1b5b6e49b8cc /drivers/video/fbmem.c | |
| parent | 84b603abd23300df8ee5fb1c23c83634c2aaedea (diff) | |
| download | linux-50e244cc793d511b86adea24972f3a7264cae114.tar.gz | |
fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover
Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller already holds the locks. Make the fb layer lock in order. This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()] [airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char] Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de> Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au> Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org> Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/fbmem.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/fbmem.c | 5 |
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbmem.c index 3ff0105a496a..d8d9831b3fdb 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbmem.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbmem.c @@ -1650,7 +1650,9 @@ static int do_register_framebuffer(struct fb_info *fb_info) event.info = fb_info; if (!lock_fb_info(fb_info)) return -ENODEV; + console_lock(); fb_notifier_call_chain(FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED, &event); + console_unlock(); unlock_fb_info(fb_info); return 0; } @@ -1853,11 +1855,8 @@ int fb_new_modelist(struct fb_info *info) err = 1; if (!list_empty(&info->modelist)) { - if (!lock_fb_info(info)) - return -ENODEV; event.info = info; err = fb_notifier_call_chain(FB_EVENT_NEW_MODELIST, &event); - unlock_fb_info(info); } return err; |