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Drivers that want to remove registered conflicting framebuffers prior to register their own framebuffer, call to remove_conflicting_framebuffers(). This function takes the registration_lock mutex, to prevent a race when drivers register framebuffer devices. But if a conflicting framebuffer device is found, the underlaying platform device is unregistered and this will lead to the platform driver .remove callback to be called. Which in turn will call to unregister_framebuffer() that takes the same lock. To prevent this, a struct fb_info.forced_out field was used as indication to unregister_framebuffer() whether the mutex has to be grabbed or not. But this could be unsafe, since the fbdev core is making assumptions about what drivers may or may not do in their .remove callbacks. Allowing to run these callbacks with the registration_lock held can cause deadlocks, since the fbdev core has no control over what drivers do in their removal path. A better solution is to drop the lock before platform_device_unregister(), so unregister_framebuffer() can take it when called from the fbdev driver. The lock is acquired again after the device has been unregistered and at this point the removal loop can be restarted. Since the conflicting framebuffer device has already been removed, the loop would just finish when no more conflicting framebuffers are found. Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220511113039.1252432-1-javierm@redhat.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.