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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/fbsysfs.c | |
| parent | 84b603abd23300df8ee5fb1c23c83634c2aaedea (diff) | |
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/fbsysfs.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/video/fbsysfs.c | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c index a55e3669d135..ef476b02fbe5 100644 --- a/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c +++ b/drivers/video/fbsysfs.c @@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ static ssize_t store_modes(struct device *device, if (i * sizeof(struct fb_videomode) != count) return -EINVAL; + if (!lock_fb_info(fb_info)) + return -ENODEV; console_lock(); list_splice(&fb_info->modelist, &old_list); fb_videomode_to_modelist((const struct fb_videomode *)buf, i, @@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ static ssize_t store_modes(struct device *device, fb_destroy_modelist(&old_list); console_unlock(); + unlock_fb_info(fb_info); return 0; } |