Re: [GIT PULL] fbdev fixes for v6.2-rc3

[Daniel Vetter]

On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 11:31, Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 1/5/23 11:22, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 09:14, Helge Deller <deller@xxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Linus,
> >>
> >> please pull the fbdev driver updates for 6.2-rc3, to receive
> >> fixes for matroxfb, offb, omapfb and fbmem.
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Helge
> >>
> >> ----
> >>
> >> The following changes since commit 1b929c02afd37871d5afb9d498426f83432e71c2:
> >>
> >>    Linux 6.2-rc1 (2022-12-25 13:41:39 -0800)
> >>
> >> are available in the Git repository at:
> >>
> >>    http://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/deller/linux-fbdev.git tags/fbdev-for-6.2-rc3
> >>
> >> for you to fetch changes up to 764043cccd7232a783753a612d628fc0cb7854be:
> >>
> >>    fbdev: omapfb: avoid stack overflow warning (2023-01-04 19:09:40 +0100)
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> fbdev updates for kernel 6.2-rc3:
> >>
> >> - Fix Matrox G200eW initialization failure
> >> - Fix build failure of offb driver when built as module
> >> - Optimize stack usage in omapfb
> >> - Prevent use-after-free in fbmem
> >>
> >> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> >> Arnd Bergmann (1):
> >>        fbdev: omapfb: avoid stack overflow warning
> >>
> >> Hang Zhang (1):
> >>        fbdev: fbmem: prevent potential use-after-free issues with console_lock()
> >
> > I looked at this, and even by fbdev locking standards this makes
> > absolutely no sense to me. I think this should be dropped before we've
> > reached some sort of conclusion on what is going on, or whether this
> > is just pure static checker conjecture without fully understanding how
> > this is supposed to work really.
> > -Daniel
>
> Sure.
>
> I'll send a new pull request where this patch is dropped.

Thanks a lot!
-Daniel

>
> Thanks!
> Helge
>
>
> >
> >> Paul Menzel (1):
> >>        fbdev: matroxfb: G200eW: Increase max memory from 1 MB to 16 MB
> >>
> >> Randy Dunlap (1):
> >>        fbdev: make offb driver tristate
> >>
> >> Xu Panda (2):
> >>        fbdev: omapfb: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
> >>        fbdev: atyfb: use strscpy() to instead of strncpy()
> >>
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/Kconfig                |  4 ++--
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/aty/atyfb_base.c       |  3 +--
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c           |  2 ++
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/matrox/matroxfb_base.c |  4 ++--
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/omap/omapfb_main.c     |  5 ++---
> >>   drivers/video/fbdev/omap2/omapfb/dss/dsi.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++++----------
> >>   6 files changed, 27 insertions(+), 19 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> >
>


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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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