Re: [PATCH v1 0/4] fbtft: Unorphan the driver for maintenance

[Daniel Vetter]

dOn Wed, Jan 26, 2022 at 3:46 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The other advantage of staging is the I don't think syzbot enables it.
> I guess it's easier to persuade Dmitry to ignore STAGING than it was to
> get him to disable FBDEV.  :P
>
> The memory corruption in fbdev was a real headache for everyone because
> the stack traces ended up all over the kernel.

Uh Dmitry disabled all of FBDEV? That's a bit too much, since there's
still a lot of distros shipping things. I don't recommend enabling
neither fbdev nor fbcon and some hardening checks look for these
(forgot which one). But if syzbot stops checking fbcon and fbdev stuff
on top of drm drivers (where most of the problems should be gone
because you can't change the resolution through the current fbdev
emulation) then that essentially means fbdev really needs to be
disabled in distros asap.

Disabling the entire pile of hw drivers makes sense, because that's
pretty hopeless imo.

Adding Dmitry to confirm.

-Daniel
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Daniel Vetter
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