Patch "drm/ast: Clear preserved bits from register output value" has been added to the 6.12-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/ast: Clear preserved bits from register output value

to the 6.12-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-ast-clear-preserved-bits-from-register-output-value.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@vger.kernel.org> know about it.


From a9fb41b5def8e1e0103d5fd1453787993587281e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2025 09:35:53 +0200
Subject: drm/ast: Clear preserved bits from register output value

From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>

commit a9fb41b5def8e1e0103d5fd1453787993587281e upstream.

Preserve the I/O register bits in __ast_write8_i_masked() as specified
by preserve_mask. Accidentally OR-ing the output value into these will
overwrite the register's previous settings.

Fixes display output on the AST2300, where the screen can go blank at
boot. The driver's original commit 312fec1405dd ("drm: Initial KMS
driver for AST (ASpeed Technologies) 2000 series (v2)") already added
the broken code. Commit 6f719373b943 ("drm/ast: Blank with VGACR17 sync
enable, always clear VGACRB6 sync off") triggered the bug.

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reported-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>
Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/a40caf8e-58ad-4f9c-af7f-54f6f69c29bb@googlemail.com/
Tested-by: Peter Schneider <pschneider1968@googlemail.com>
Reviewed-by: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com>
Fixes: 6f719373b943 ("drm/ast: Blank with VGACR17 sync enable, always clear VGACRB6 sync off")
Fixes: 312fec1405dd ("drm: Initial KMS driver for AST (ASpeed Technologies) 2000 series (v2)")
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Cc: Nick Bowler <nbowler@draconx.ca>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@chromium.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Cc: Jocelyn Falempe <jfalempe@redhat.com>
Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org> # v3.5+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251024073626.129032-1-tzimmermann@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.h |    8 ++++----
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.h
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/ast/ast_drv.h
@@ -286,13 +286,13 @@ static inline void __ast_write8_i(void _
 	__ast_write8(addr, reg + 1, val);
 }
 
-static inline void __ast_write8_i_masked(void __iomem *addr, u32 reg, u8 index, u8 read_mask,
+static inline void __ast_write8_i_masked(void __iomem *addr, u32 reg, u8 index, u8 preserve_mask,
 					 u8 val)
 {
-	u8 tmp = __ast_read8_i_masked(addr, reg, index, read_mask);
+	u8 tmp = __ast_read8_i_masked(addr, reg, index, preserve_mask);
 
-	tmp |= val;
-	__ast_write8_i(addr, reg, index, tmp);
+	val &= ~preserve_mask;
+	__ast_write8_i(addr, reg, index, tmp | val);
 }
 
 static inline u32 ast_read32(struct ast_device *ast, u32 reg)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from tzimmermann@suse.de are

queue-6.12/drm-ast-clear-preserved-bits-from-register-output-value.patch
queue-6.12/fbcon-set-fb_display-mode-to-null-when-the-mode-is-released.patch
queue-6.12/drm-sysfb-do-not-dereference-null-pointer-in-plane-reset.patch
queue-6.12/fbdev-bitblit-bound-check-glyph-index-in-bit_putcs.patch