From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman , stable@vger.kernel.org, Christopher Friedt , Thomas Hellstrom , Jakob Bornecrantz Subject: [PATCH 3.15 051/122] drm/vmwgfx: Fix incorrect write to read-only register v2: Date: Mon, 7 Jul 2014 16:56:53 -0700 Message-Id: <20140707235735.811756506@linuxfoundation.org> In-Reply-To: <20140707235734.234226883@linuxfoundation.org> References: <20140707235734.234226883@linuxfoundation.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: 3.15-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. ------------------ From: Thomas Hellstrom commit 4e578080ed3262ed2c3985868539bc66218d25c0 upstream. Commit "drm/vmwgfx: correct fb_fix_screeninfo.line_length", while fixing a vmwgfx fbdev bug, also writes the pitch to a supposedly read-only register: SVGA_REG_BYTES_PER_LINE, while it should be (and also in fact is) written to SVGA_REG_PITCHLOCK. This patch is Cc'd stable because of the unknown effects writing to this register might have, particularly on older device versions. v2: Updated log message. Cc: Christopher Friedt Tested-by: Christopher Friedt Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom Reviewed-by: Jakob Bornecrantz Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c @@ -179,7 +179,6 @@ static int vmw_fb_set_par(struct fb_info vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_POSITION_Y, info->var.yoffset); vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_WIDTH, info->var.xres); vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_HEIGHT, info->var.yres); - vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_BYTES_PER_LINE, info->fix.line_length); vmw_write(vmw_priv, SVGA_REG_DISPLAY_ID, SVGA_ID_INVALID); }