linux-kernel - [GIT PULL] fbdev fixes and updates for v6.17-rc1

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Message-ID: <aI3wuBNWPyKhHbnC@p100>
Date: Sat, 2 Aug 2025 13:04:24 +0200
From: Helge Deller <deller@...nel.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
	dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
Subject: [GIT PULL] fbdev fixes and updates for v6.17-rc1

Hi Linus,

please pull the fbdev fixes and updates for 6.17-rc1:

One potential buffer overflow fix in the framebuffer registration function,
some fixes for the imxfb, nvidiafb and simplefb drivers, and a bunch of
cleanups for fbcon, kyrofb and svgalib.

Thanks,
Helge

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The following changes since commit 89be9a83ccf1f88522317ce02f854f30d6115c41:

  Linux 6.16-rc7 (2025-07-20 15:18:33 -0700)

are available in the Git repository at:

  http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git tags/fbdev-for-6.17-rc1

for you to fetch changes up to 81b96e4aef9592493873507eec52eca68f0721ac:

  fbcon: Use 'bool' where appopriate (2025-07-27 19:56:52 +0200)

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fbdev fixes and cleanups for 6.17-rc1:

Framework fixes:
- fix potential buffer overflow in do_register_framebuffer() [Yongzhen Zhang]

Driver fixes:
- imxfb: prevent null-ptr-deref [Chenyuan Yang]
- nvidiafb: fix build on 32-bit ARCH=um [Johannes Berg]
- nvidiafb: add depends on HAS_IOPORT [Randy Dunlap]
- simplefb: Use of_reserved_mem_region_to_resource() for "memory-region" [Rob Herring]

Cleanups:
- fbcon: various code cleanups wrt blinking [Ville Syrjälä]
- kyrofb: Convert to devm_*() functions [Giovanni Di Santi]
- svgalib: Coding style cleanups [Darshan R.]
- Fix typo in Kconfig text for FB_DEVICE [Daniel Palmer]

----------------------------------------------------------------
Chenyuan Yang (1):
      fbdev: imxfb: Check fb_add_videomode to prevent null-ptr-deref

Daniel Palmer (1):
      fbdev: Fix typo in Kconfig text for FB_DEVICE

Darshan R. (1):
      fbdev: svgalib: Clean up coding style

Giovanni Di Santi (3):
      fbdev: kyro: Add missing PCI memory region request
      fbdev: kyro: Use devm_ioremap() for mmio registers
      fbdev: kyro: Use devm_ioremap_wc() for screen mem

Johannes Berg (1):
      fbdev: nvidiafb: fix build on 32-bit ARCH=um

Randy Dunlap (1):
      fbdev: nvidiafb: add depends on HAS_IOPORT

Rob Herring (Arm) (1):
      fbdev: simplefb: Use of_reserved_mem_region_to_resource() for "memory-region"

Ville Syrjälä (4):
      fbcon: fbcon_cursor_noblink -> fbcon_cursor_blink
      fbcon: fbcon_is_inactive() -> fbcon_is_active()
      fbcon: Introduce get_{fg,bg}_color()
      fbcon: Use 'bool' where appopriate

Yongzhen Zhang (1):
      fbdev: fix potential buffer overflow in do_register_framebuffer()

 drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig           |  2 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/Kconfig      |  2 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c      | 77 ++++++++++++++++------------
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c      |  3 ++
 drivers/video/fbdev/core/svgalib.c    | 95 ++++++++++++++++-------------------
 drivers/video/fbdev/imxfb.c           |  9 +++-
 drivers/video/fbdev/kyro/fbdev.c      | 24 ++++-----
 drivers/video/fbdev/nvidia/nv_local.h |  2 +-
 drivers/video/fbdev/simplefb.c        | 17 ++-----
 9 files changed, 116 insertions(+), 115 deletions(-)