Patch "drm/nouveau/bios: make jump conditional" has been added to the 3.10-stable tree

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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/nouveau/bios: make jump conditional

to the 3.10-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-bios-make-jump-conditional.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.10 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.


>From 6d60792ec059d9f2139828f9f017679abb81aa73 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 5 Jan 2014 20:07:02 -0500
Subject: drm/nouveau/bios: make jump conditional
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From: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

commit 6d60792ec059d9f2139828f9f017679abb81aa73 upstream.

This fixes a hang in VBIOS scripts of the form "condition; jump".
The jump used to always be executed, while now it will only be
executed if the condition is true.

See https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=72943

Reported-by: Darcy Brás da Silva <dardevelin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Ilia Mirkin <imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/init.c |    6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/init.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/core/subdev/bios/init.c
@@ -1295,7 +1295,11 @@ init_jump(struct nvbios_init *init)
 	u16 offset = nv_ro16(bios, init->offset + 1);
 
 	trace("JUMP\t0x%04x\n", offset);
-	init->offset = offset;
+
+	if (init_exec(init))
+		init->offset = offset;
+	else
+		init->offset += 3;
 }
 
 /**


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from imirkin@xxxxxxxxxxxx are

queue-3.10/drm-nouveau-bios-make-jump-conditional.patch
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