This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm/nouveau: fix for disabled fbdev emulation 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-fix-for-disabled-fbdev-emulation.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 52dfcc5ccfbb6697ac3cac7f7ff1e712760e1216 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:52:14 +0300 Subject: drm/nouveau: fix for disabled fbdev emulation From: Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro@xxxxxxxxxxx> commit 52dfcc5ccfbb6697ac3cac7f7ff1e712760e1216 upstream. Hello, after this commit: commit f045f459d925138fe7d6193a8c86406bda7e49da Author: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu Jun 2 12:23:31 2016 +1000 drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix out-of-bounds memory accesses kernel started to oops when loading nouveau module when using GTX 780 Ti video adapter. This patch fixes the problem. Bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120591 Signed-off-by: Dmitrii Tcvetkov <demfloro@xxxxxxxxxxx> Suggested-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: f045f459d925 ("nouveau_fbcon_init()") Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c @@ -557,7 +557,8 @@ nouveau_fbcon_init(struct drm_device *de if (ret) goto fini; - fbcon->helper.fbdev->pixmap.buf_align = 4; + if (fbcon->helper.fbdev) + fbcon->helper.fbdev->pixmap.buf_align = 4; return 0; fini: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from demfloro@xxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.4/drm-nouveau-fix-for-disabled-fbdev-emulation.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