fbcon: only unbind from console if successfully registered
authorIan Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:47:52 +0000 (16:47 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:39:57 +0000 (07:39 -0700)
Attempting to unload a framebuffer module calls unregister_framebuffer()
which in turn gets fbcon to release it.  If fbcon has no framebuffers
linked to a console, it will also unbind itself from the console driver.
However, if fbcon never registered itself as a console driver, the unbind
will fail causing the framebuffer device entry to persist.  In most cases
this failure will result in an oops when attempting to access the now
non-existent device.

This patch ensures that the fbcon unbind request will succeed even if a
bind was never done.  It tracks if a successful bind ever occurred & will
only attempt to unbind if needed.  If there never was a bind, it simply
returns with no error.

Signed-off-by: Ian Armstrong <ian@iarmst.demon.co.uk>
Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
drivers/video/console/fbcon.c

index 4bee7c2e6313925c2905d46cbca23de42012c478..5a686cea23f4931db5ad56b8cfe7f07471de90fd 100644 (file)
@@ -114,6 +114,7 @@ static int last_fb_vc = MAX_NR_CONSOLES - 1;
 static int fbcon_is_default = 1; 
 static int fbcon_has_exited;
 static int primary_device = -1;
+static int fbcon_has_console_bind;
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_FRAMEBUFFER_CONSOLE_DETECT_PRIMARY
 static int map_override;
@@ -544,6 +545,8 @@ static int fbcon_takeover(int show_logo)
                        con2fb_map[i] = -1;
                }
                info_idx = -1;
+       } else {
+               fbcon_has_console_bind = 1;
        }
 
        return err;
@@ -2949,6 +2952,10 @@ static int fbcon_unbind(void)
 
        ret = unbind_con_driver(&fb_con, first_fb_vc, last_fb_vc,
                                fbcon_is_default);
+
+       if (!ret)
+               fbcon_has_console_bind = 0;
+
        return ret;
 }
 #else
@@ -2962,6 +2969,9 @@ static int fbcon_fb_unbind(int idx)
 {
        int i, new_idx = -1, ret = 0;
 
+       if (!fbcon_has_console_bind)
+               return 0;
+
        for (i = first_fb_vc; i <= last_fb_vc; i++) {
                if (con2fb_map[i] != idx &&
                    con2fb_map[i] != -1) {