Re: [BUG] drivers/video/sis: deadlock introduced by "fbdev: add mutex for fb_mmap locking"

[Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm>]

On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 09:13:11 +0800
Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> 
> This patch also works for me, thanks!
> 
> Regards,
> Wu Zhangjin
> 

Who should I send this patch to be included as a 2.6.31 regression fix?

Regards,
Krzysztof

> > 
> > From: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
> > 
> > Remove redundant call to the sisfb_get_fix() before sis frambuffer is 
> > registered.
> > 
> > This fixes a problem with uninitialized the fb_info->mm_lock mutex.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
> > ---
> > 
> > diff -urp linux-ref/drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c 
> > linux-next/drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c
> > --- linux-ref/drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c  2009-07-01 18:07:05.000000000 
> > +0200
> > +++ linux-next/drivers/video/sis/sis_main.c 2009-07-05 17:20:33.000000000 
> > +0200
> > @@ -6367,7 +6367,6 @@ error_3:      vfree(ivideo->bios_abase);
> >             sis_fb_info->fix = ivideo->sisfb_fix;
> >             sis_fb_info->screen_base = ivideo->video_vbase + 
> > ivideo->video_offset;
> >             sis_fb_info->fbops = &sisfb_ops;
> > -           sisfb_get_fix(&sis_fb_info->fix, -1, sis_fb_info);
> >             sis_fb_info->pseudo_palette = ivideo->pseudo_palette;
> >  
> >             fb_alloc_cmap(&sis_fb_info->cmap, 256 , 0);
> > 
> > 
> > 
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