From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 63cb44441826e842b7285575b96db631cc9f2505 upstream. This may confuse user-space clients like plymouth that opens a drm file descriptor as a result of a hotplug event and then generates a new event... Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 5ea1734827bb ("drm/vmwgfx: Send a hotplug event at master_set") Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@xxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Deepak Rawat <drawat@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c @@ -1245,7 +1245,13 @@ static int vmw_master_set(struct drm_dev } dev_priv->active_master = vmaster; - drm_sysfs_hotplug_event(dev); + + /* + * Inform a new master that the layout may have changed while + * it was gone. + */ + if (!from_open) + drm_sysfs_hotplug_event(dev); return 0; }