On Thu, May 16, 2013 at 05:49:00PM -0400, [email protected] wrote:
> 
> This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
> 
>     drm: don't check modeset locks in panic handler
> 
> to the 3.0-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 is:
>      drm-don-t-check-modeset-locks-in-panic-handler.patch
> and it can be found in the queue-3.0 subdirectory.
> 
> If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
> please let <[email protected]> know about it.
> 
> 
> From a9b054e8ab06504c2afa0e307ee78d3778993a1d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Date: Thu, 2 May 2013 09:43:05 +0200
> Subject: drm: don't check modeset locks in panic handler
> 
> From: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> 
> commit a9b054e8ab06504c2afa0e307ee78d3778993a1d upstream.
> 
> Since we know that locking is broken in that case and it's more
> important to not flood the dmesg with random gunk.
> 
> References: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
> Cc: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
> Cc: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Reported-and-tested-by: Borislav Petkov <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <[email protected]>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c |    4 ++++
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc.c
> @@ -907,6 +907,10 @@ int drm_mode_group_init_legacy_group(str
>       if ((ret = drm_mode_group_init(dev, group)))
>               return ret;
>  
> +     /* Locking is currently fubar in the panic handler. */
> +     if (oops_in_progress)
> +             return;
> +

This is not correct.  In 3.0, function
drm_mode_group_init_legacy_group() isn't void, it should return an
int.

This comment also applies to the 3.4 backport.

Cheers,
--
Luis

>       list_for_each_entry(crtc, &dev->mode_config.crtc_list, head)
>               group->id_list[group->num_crtcs++] = crtc->base.id;
>  
> 
> 
> Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] 
> are
> 
> queue-3.0/drm-mm-fix-dump-table-bug.patch
> queue-3.0/drm-don-t-check-modeset-locks-in-panic-handler.patch
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