Re: Patch "drm: don't check modeset locks in panic handler" has been added to the 3.0-stable tree

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On Fri, May 17, 2013 at 01:27:40PM +0100, Luis Henriques wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 05:49:00PM -0400, gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> > 
> >     drm: don't check modeset locks in panic handler
> > 
> > to the 3.0-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-don-t-check-modeset-locks-in-panic-handler.patch
> > and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
> > 
> > If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> > please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
> > 
> > 
> > From a9b054e8ab06504c2afa0e307ee78d3778993a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:43:05 +0200
> > Subject: drm: don't check modeset locks in panic handler
> > 
> > From: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > commit a9b054e8ab06504c2afa0e307ee78d3778993a1d upstream.
> > 
> > Since we know that locking is broken in that case and it's more
> > important to not flood the dmesg with random gunk.
> > 
> > References: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130502000206.GH15623@xxxxxxx
> > Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c |    4 ++++
> >  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> > 
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> > @@ -907,6 +907,10 @@ int drm_mode_group_init_legacy_group(str
> >  	if ((ret = drm_mode_group_init(dev, group)))
> >  		return ret;
> >  
> > +	/* Locking is currently fubar in the panic handler. */
> > +	if (oops_in_progress)
> > +		return;
> > +
> 
> This is not correct.  In 3.0, function
> drm_mode_group_init_legacy_group() isn't void, it should return an
> int.
> 
> This comment also applies to the 3.4 backport.

Ah, good catch, I'll just drop this patch from both trees.

thanks,

greg k-h
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