This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau/kms: take mode_config mutex in connector hotplug path 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-kms-take-mode_config-mutex-in-connector-hotplug-path.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. >From 0a882cadbc63fd2da3994af7115b4ada2fcbd638 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 08:56:51 +1000 Subject: drm/nouveau/kms: take mode_config mutex in connector hotplug path From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 0a882cadbc63fd2da3994af7115b4ada2fcbd638 upstream. fdo#93634 Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c @@ -969,10 +969,13 @@ nouveau_connector_hotplug(struct nvif_no NV_DEBUG(drm, "%splugged %s\n", plugged ? "" : "un", name); + mutex_lock(&drm->dev->mode_config.mutex); if (plugged) drm_helper_connector_dpms(connector, DRM_MODE_DPMS_ON); else drm_helper_connector_dpms(connector, DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF); + mutex_unlock(&drm->dev->mode_config.mutex); + drm_helper_hpd_irq_event(connector->dev); } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-platform-fix-deferred-probe.patch queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-kms-take-mode_config-mutex-in-connector-hotplug-path.patch queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-display-enable-vblank-irqs-after-display-engine-is-on-again.patch queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-disp-dp-ensure-sink-is-powered-up-before-attempting-link-training.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