On Coreboot platforms, a system framebuffer may be provided to the Linux kernel by filling a LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER entry in the Coreboot table. But a Coreboot payload (e.g: SeaBIOS) could also provide its own framebuffer information to the Linux kernel. If that's the case, arch x86 boot code will fill the global screen_info data and this used by the Generic System Framebuffers (sysfb) framework, to register a platform device with pdata about the system's framebuffer. But later, the framebuffer_coreboot driver will try to do the same and attempt to register a "simple-framebuffer" platform device (using the information from the Coreboot table), which will lead to an error due a device with the same name already being registered: sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/bus/platform/devices/simple-framebuffer.0' ... coreboot: could not register framebuffer framebuffer coreboot8: probe with driver framebuffer failed with error -17 To prevent this issue, make the framebuffer_core driver to not register a platform device if the global struct screen_info data has been filled. Reported-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/all/ZuCG-DggNThuF4pj@b20ea791c01f/T/#ma7fb65acbc1a56042258adac910992bb225a20d2 Suggested-by: Julius Werner <jwerner@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@xxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Brian Norris <briannorris@xxxxxxxxxxxx> --- Changes in v2: - Declare the struct screen_info as constant variable (Thomas Zimmermann). - Use screen_info_video_type() instead of checking the screen_info video types directly (Thomas Zimmermann). - Fix missing "device" word in a comment (Brian Norris). - Fix some mispellings in a comment (Brian Norris). - Change error code returned from -EINVAL to -ENODEV (Brian Norris). drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) diff --git a/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c b/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c index daadd71d8ddd..49eeb13814e4 100644 --- a/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c +++ b/drivers/firmware/google/framebuffer-coreboot.c @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/platform_data/simplefb.h> #include <linux/platform_device.h> +#include <linux/screen_info.h> #include "coreboot_table.h" @@ -27,8 +28,10 @@ static int framebuffer_probe(struct coreboot_device *dev) int i; u32 length; struct lb_framebuffer *fb = &dev->framebuffer; + const struct screen_info *si = &screen_info; struct platform_device *pdev; struct resource res; + unsigned int type; struct simplefb_platform_data pdata = { .width = fb->x_resolution, .height = fb->y_resolution, @@ -36,6 +39,20 @@ static int framebuffer_probe(struct coreboot_device *dev) .format = NULL, }; + /* + * On Coreboot systems, the advertised LB_TAG_FRAMEBUFFER entry + * in the Coreboot table should only be used if the payload did + * not pass a framebuffer information to the Linux kernel. + * + * If the global screen_info data has been filled, the Generic + * System Framebuffers (sysfb) will already register a platform + * device and pass that screen_info as platform_data to a driver + * that can scan-out using the system provided framebuffer. + */ + type = screen_info_video_type(si); + if (type) + return -ENODEV; + if (!fb->physical_address) return -ENODEV; -- 2.46.0