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.
The bug has been present for a long time but commit 27599aacbaef ("fbdev:
Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal") unmasked it since the
fbdev core started unregistering the framebuffers' devices associated.
Fixes: 27599aacbaef ("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal")
Reported-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reported-by: Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx>
---
Changes in v2:
- Drop patch 1/2 since patch 2/2 should be enough to fix the issue.
- Add missing Fixes and Reported-by tags (Thomas Zimmermann).
- Add Thomas Zimmermann's Reviewed-by tag.
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 5 ++++-
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
index 84427470367b..82d4318ba8f7 100644
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
@@ -1434,7 +1434,10 @@ fb_release(struct inode *inode, struct file *file)
__acquires(&info->lock)
__releases(&info->lock)
{
- struct fb_info * const info = file->private_data;
+ struct fb_info * const info = file_fb_info(file);
+
+ if (!info)
+ return -ENODEV;
lock_fb_info(info);
if (info->fbops->fb_release)
--
2.35.1
