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authorJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>2021-12-14 20:18:48 -0400
committerJason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>2021-12-14 20:18:48 -0400
commit4922f0920966c28d674b03479cdcb7f3939bfbbd (patch)
tree6a8b3972ff853fc0addcfab662d33354124f7fdb /drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
parent20679094a0161c94faf77e373fa3f7428a8e14bd (diff)
parent2585cf9dfaaddf00b069673f27bb3f8530e2039c (diff)
Merge tag 'v5.16-rc5' into rdma.git for-next
Required due to dependencies in following patches. Signed-off-by: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@nvidia.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c11
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
index 62f0ded70681..b63074fd892e 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c
+++ b/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;