Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: fix check in fbdev init

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:39:39AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:38 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Aug 10, 2022 at 11:28:18AM -0400, Alex Deucher wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 19, 2022 at 2:57 PM Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > The new vkms virtual display code is atomic so there is
> > > > no need to call drm_helper_disable_unused_functions()
> > > > when it is enabled.  Doing so can result in a segfault.
> > > > When the driver switched from the old virtual display code
> > > > to the new atomic virtual display code, it was missed that
> > > > we enable virtual display unconditionally under SR-IOV
> > > > so the checks here missed that case.  Add the missing
> > > > check for SR-IOV.
> > > >
> > > > There is no equivalent of this patch for Linus' tree
> > > > because the relevant code no longer exists.  This patch
> > > > is only relevant to kernels 5.15 and 5.16.
> > > >
> > > > Fixes: 84ec374bd580 ("drm/amdgpu: create amdgpu_vkms (v4)")
> > > > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexander.deucher@amd.com>
> > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 5.15.x
> > > > Cc: hgoffin@amazon.com
> > >
> > > Hi Greg,
> > >
> > > Is there any chance this can get applied?  It fixes a regression on
> > > 5.15 and 5.16.
> >
> > Ah, missed this as it was not obvious that this was a not-upstream
> > commit at all, sorry.
> >
> > I'll dig it out of lore.kernel.org and queue it up for the next round of
> > releases, but note, this is our "busy time" with many patches marked for
> > stable.
> >
> > Oh and 5.16 is long end-of-life, nothing anyone can do there, and no one
> > should be using that kernel version anymore, so no issues there.
> 
> Thanks Greg.  Much appreciated.

Sorry for the delay, now queued up.

greg k-h