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 4.6-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-4.6 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-4.6/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