linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/mgag200: Fix calling drm_fb_helper

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Hash Suite: Windows password security audit tool. GUI, reports in PDF.

[<prev] [next>] [<thread-prev] [thread-next>] [day] [month] [year] [list]

Date:	Thu, 17 Sep 2015 16:47:40 +0530
From:	Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>
To:	Archit Taneja <architt@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
	Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...il.com>,
	David Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	dri-devel <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
	Archit Taneja <archit@...com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/mgag200: Fix calling drm_fb_helper_fini() twice

On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 04:24:21PM +0530, Archit Taneja wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/17/2015 2:04 PM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> >
> >
> >* Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>So this patch was whitespace damaged - I applied it by hand and made the commit
> >
> >>below. This has solved the crash, thanks Archit!
> >
> >
> >
> >Spoke too soon - the attached (allyesconfig-ish) config still crashes, first there
> >
> >are a handful of kobject debug warnings, then:
> 
> The error handling in the driver is bad. The main problem is that
> the driver_load op calls mgag200_driver_unload if anything fails,
> which doesn't work well if driver_load fails mid way.
mgag200_driver_unload is trying to unload everything evenif that has not
succeeded in initializing. Here the ttm failed to initialize but
still mgag200_mm_fini was called to unload it.

regards
sudip
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/