This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm: Cancel drm_fb_helper_resume_work on unload to the 4.9-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-cancel-drm_fb_helper_resume_work-on-unload.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 24f76b2c87ed68f79f9f0705b11ccbefaaa0d390 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2017 12:49:56 +0000 Subject: drm: Cancel drm_fb_helper_resume_work on unload MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit From: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> commit 24f76b2c87ed68f79f9f0705b11ccbefaaa0d390 upstream. We can not allow the worker to run after its fbdev, or even the module, has been removed. Fixes: cfe63423d9be ("drm/fb-helper: Add drm_fb_helper_set_suspend_unlocked()") Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170207124956.14954-2-chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c @@ -848,6 +848,7 @@ void drm_fb_helper_fini(struct drm_fb_he if (!drm_fbdev_emulation) return; + cancel_work_sync(&fb_helper->resume_work); cancel_work_sync(&fb_helper->dirty_work); if (!list_empty(&fb_helper->kernel_fb_list)) { Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/drm-cancel-drm_fb_helper_dirty_work-on-unload.patch queue-4.9/drm-i915-gvt-disable-access-to-stolen-memory-as-a-guest.patch queue-4.9/drm-cancel-drm_fb_helper_resume_work-on-unload.patch