This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: guard against enabling cursor on disabled heads to the 4.1-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-kms-nv50-guard-against-enabling-cursor-on-disabled-heads.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.1 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 697bb728d9e2367020aa0c5af7363809d7658e43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2015 17:20:57 +1000 Subject: drm/nouveau/kms/nv50-: guard against enabling cursor on disabled heads From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 697bb728d9e2367020aa0c5af7363809d7658e43 upstream. Userspace has started doing this, which upsets the display class hw error checking in various unpleasant ways. Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nv50_display.c @@ -979,7 +979,7 @@ nv50_crtc_cursor_show_hide(struct nouvea { struct nv50_mast *mast = nv50_mast(nv_crtc->base.dev); - if (show && nv_crtc->cursor.nvbo) + if (show && nv_crtc->cursor.nvbo && nv_crtc->base.enabled) nv50_crtc_cursor_show(nv_crtc); else nv50_crtc_cursor_hide(nv_crtc); Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.1/drm-nouveau-kms-nv50-guard-against-enabling-cursor-on-disabled-heads.patch queue-4.1/drm-nouveau-fbcon-nv11-correctly-account-for-ring-space-usage.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html