linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: Use helper to get fb

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Date:   Tue, 3 May 2022 22:53:55 +0200
From:   Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
To:     Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Maxime Ripard <maxime@...no.tech>,
        Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@...e.de>,
        Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang@...el.com>,
        dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] fbdev: Use helper to get fb_info in all file
 operations

On Tue, May 03, 2022 at 10:19:34PM +0200, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> A reference to the framebuffer device struct fb_info is stored in the file
> private data, but this reference could no longer be valid and must not be
> accessed directly. Instead, the file_fb_info() accessor function must be
> used since it does sanity checking to make sure that the fb_info is valid.
> 
> This can happen for example if the registered framebuffer device is for a
> driver that just uses a framebuffer provided by the system firmware. In
> that case, the fbdev core would unregister the framebuffer device when a
> real video driver is probed and ask to remove conflicting framebuffers.
> 
> Most fbdev file operations already use the helper to get the fb_info but
> get_fb_unmapped_area() and fb_deferred_io_fsync() don't. Fix those two.
> 
> Since fb_deferred_io_fsync() is not in fbmem.o, the helper has to be
> exported. Rename it and add a fb_ prefix to denote that is public now.
> 
> Reported-by: Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang@...el.com>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@...hat.com>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>