Patch "fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device" has been added to the 5.17-stable tree

2022-04-11 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device to the 5.17-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

Patch "fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device" has been added to the 5.16-stable tree

2022-04-11 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device to the 5.16-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

Patch "fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device" has been added to the 5.15-stable tree

2022-04-11 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device to the 5.15-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

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

2022-04-05 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
Hi Am 05.04.22 um 11:01 schrieb Daniel Vetter: On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 09:44:02PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

2022-04-05 Thread Javier Martinez Canillas
Hello Thomas, On 4/4/22 21:44, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux > device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot > unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference. > An example error message on ppc64le is shown

Re: [PATCH] fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

2022-04-05 Thread Daniel Vetter
On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 09:44:02PM +0200, Thomas Zimmermann wrote: > OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux > device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot > unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference. > An example error message on

[PATCH] fbdev: Fix unregistering of framebuffers without device

2022-04-04 Thread Thomas Zimmermann
OF framebuffers do not have an underlying device in the Linux device hierarchy. Do a regular unregister call instead of hot unplugging such a non-existing device. Fixes a NULL dereference. An example error message on ppc64le is shown below. BUG: Kernel NULL pointer dereference on read at