Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/21] fbcon: Introduce wrapper for console->fb_info lookup

Sam Ravnborg
2022-02-03T21:25:58Z

On Mon, Jan 31, 2022 at 10:05:36PM +0100, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> Half of it is protected by console_lock, but the other half is a lot
> more awkward: Registration/deregistration of fbdev are serialized, but
> we don't really clear out anything in con2fb_map and so there's
> potential for use-after free mixups.
>
> First step is to encapsulate the lookup.
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
> Cc: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
> Cc: Du Cheng <ducheng2@gmail.com>
> Cc: Claudio Suarez <cssk@net-c.es>
> Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>