This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled
x86/sysfb_efi: Fix valid BAR address range check
to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree
which can be found at:
https://git.launchpad.net/~canonical-kernel/linux/+git/linux-stable-ckt/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue
This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt10.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please
reply to this email.
For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable
Thanks.
-Kamal
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>From d33f4cccaada83da96b5a33784cd8fce6829c3e1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 5 May 2016 14:14:21 +0100
Subject: x86/sysfb_efi: Fix valid BAR address range check
commit c10fcb14c7afd6688c7b197a814358fecf244222 upstream.
The code for checking whether a BAR address range is valid will break
out of the loop when a start address of 0x0 is encountered.
This behaviour is wrong since by breaking out of the loop we may miss
the BAR that describes the EFI frame buffer in a later iteration.
Because of this bug I can't use video=efifb: boot parameter to get
efifb on my new ThinkPad E550 for my old linux system hard disk with
3.10 kernel. In 3.10, efifb is the only choice due to DRM/I915 not
supporting the GPU.
This patch also add a trivial optimization to break out after we find
the frame buffer address range without testing later BARs.
Signed-off-by: Wang YanQing <udknight@xxxxxxxxx>
[ Rewrote changelog. ]
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Peter Jones <pjones@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@xxxxxx>
Cc: linux-efi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1462454061-21561-2-git-send-email-matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c | 14 ++++++++++++--
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c
index b285d4e..5da924b 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kernel/sysfb_efi.c
@@ -106,14 +106,24 @@ static int __init efifb_set_system(const struct dmi_system_id *id)
continue;
for (i = 0; i < DEVICE_COUNT_RESOURCE; i++) {
resource_size_t start, end;
+ unsigned long flags;
+
+ flags = pci_resource_flags(dev, i);
+ if (!(flags & IORESOURCE_MEM))
+ continue;
+
+ if (flags & IORESOURCE_UNSET)
+ continue;
+
+ if (pci_resource_len(dev, i) == 0)
+ continue;
start = pci_resource_start(dev, i);
- if (start == 0)
- break;
end = pci_resource_end(dev, i);
if (screen_info.lfb_base >= start &&
screen_info.lfb_base < end) {
found_bar = 1;
+ break;
}
}
}
--
2.7.4
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