This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix module unload when fbcon init has failed for some reason
to the 4.4-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-nouveau-fbcon-fix-module-unload-when-fbcon-init-.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.4 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 4176dc029705044ec6452a41ffe3084d6c951adc
Author: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri Jul 24 17:01:39 2020 +1000
drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix module unload when fbcon init has failed for some reason
[ Upstream commit 498595abf5bd51f0ae074cec565d888778ea558f ]
Stale pointer was tripping up the unload path.
Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
index 343476d157266..edb3a23ded5d5 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
@@ -566,6 +566,7 @@ fini:
drm_fb_helper_fini(&fbcon->helper);
free:
kfree(fbcon);
+ drm->fbcon = NULL;
return ret;
}
