linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 4/5] fbdev: Fix some race conditions between fbmem and sysfb

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Message-Id: <20220406160632.496684-5-javierm@redhat.com>
Date:   Wed,  6 Apr 2022 18:06:31 +0200
From:   Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>,
        Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>,
        Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>,
        Helge Deller <deller@....de>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>,
        Xiyu Yang <xiyuyang19@...an.edu.cn>,
        Zhen Lei <thunder.leizhen@...wei.com>,
        Zheyu Ma <zheyuma97@...il.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC PATCH 4/5] fbdev: Fix some race conditions between fbmem and sysfb

The platform devices registered in sysfb match with a firmware-based fbdev
or DRM driver, that are used to have early graphics using framebuffers set
up by the system firmware.

Real DRM drivers later are probed and remove all conflicting framebuffers,
leading to these platform devices for generic drivers to be unregistered.

But the current solution has two issues that this patch fixes:

1) It is a layering violation for the fbdev core to unregister a device
   that was registered by sysfb.

   Instead, the sysfb_try_unregister() helper function can be called for
   sysfb to attempt unregistering the device if is the one registered.

2) The sysfb_init() function could be called after a DRM driver is probed
   and requested to unregister devices for drivers with a conflicting fb.

   To prevent this, disable any future sysfb platform device registration
   by calling sysfb_disable(), if a driver requested to remove conflicting
   framebuffers with remove_conflicting_framebuffers().

Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@...ll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
---

 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 17 ++++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index c1bfb8df9cba..acf641b05d11 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
 #include <linux/kernel.h>
 #include <linux/major.h>
 #include <linux/slab.h>
+#include <linux/sysfb.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/mman.h>
 #include <linux/vt.h>
@@ -1588,7 +1589,10 @@ static void do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
 				 * unregister_framebuffer() function that takes it.
 				 */
 				mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);
-				platform_device_unregister(to_platform_device(device));
+				if (!sysfb_try_unregister(device)) {
+					/* sysfb didn't register this device, unregister it */
+					platform_device_unregister(to_platform_device(device));
+				}
 				mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
 				/*
 				 * Restart the removal now that the platform device
@@ -1781,6 +1785,17 @@ int remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
 		do_free = true;
 	}
 
+	/*
+	 * If a driver asked to unregister a platform device registered by
+	 * sysfb, then can be assumed that this is a driver for a display
+	 * that is set up by the system firmware and has a generic driver.
+	 *
+	 * Drivers for devices that don't have a generic driver will never
+	 * ask for this, so let's assume that a real driver for the display
+	 * was already probed and prevent sysfb to register devices later.
+	 */
+	sysfb_disable();
+
 	mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
 	do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(a, name, primary);
 	mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);
-- 
2.35.1