It's now safe to let fbcon unbind automatically on fbdev unregister. The crash problem was fixed in commit 2122b40580dd ("fbdev: fbcon: Fix unregister crash when more than one framebuffer") Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 6 ++++-- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c index 523b1067f1ed..18a5593cc9ec 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c @@ -2999,7 +2999,8 @@ static int drm_fbdev_fb_open(struct fb_info *info, int user) { struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = info->par; - if (!try_module_get(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner)) + /* No need to take a ref for fbcon because it unbinds on unregister */ + if (user && !try_module_get(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner)) return -ENODEV; return 0; @@ -3009,7 +3010,8 @@ static int drm_fbdev_fb_release(struct fb_info *info, int user) { struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = info->par; - module_put(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner); + if (user) + module_put(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner); return 0; } -- 2.20.1 _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel