From 7e9b8a5333503decc32e04c910068eca4e4ec6c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Airlie Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 16:29:47 +1000 Subject: [PATCH] fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer (v1.1) commit d8636a2717bb3da2a7ce2154bf08de90bb8c87b0 upstream. So we've had a fair few reports of fbcon handover breakage between efi/vesafb and i915 surface recently, so I dedicated a couple of days to finding the problem. Essentially the last thing we saw was the conflicting framebuffer message and that was all. So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race. Thread A (driver load) Thread B (timer thread) unbind_con_driver -> | bind_con_driver -> | vc->vc_sw->con_deinit -> | fbcon_deinit -> | console_lock() | | | | fbcon_flashcursor timer fires | console_lock() <- blocked for A | | fbcon_del_cursor_timer -> del_timer_sync (BOOM) Of course because all of this is under the console lock, we never see anything, also since we also just unbound the active console guess what we never see anything. Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb->kms driver handoff. v1.1: add comment suggestion from Alan. Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie Acked-by: Alan Cox Tested-by: Josh Boyer Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/video/console/fbcon.c | 9 ++++++++- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c index 2e471c22abf5..88e92041d8f0 100644 --- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c +++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c @@ -372,8 +372,15 @@ static void fb_flashcursor(struct work_struct *work) struct vc_data *vc = NULL; int c; int mode; + int ret; + + /* FIXME: we should sort out the unbind locking instead */ + /* instead we just fail to flash the cursor if we can't get + * the lock instead of blocking fbcon deinit */ + ret = console_trylock(); + if (ret == 0) + return; - console_lock(); if (ops && ops->currcon != -1) vc = vc_cons[ops->currcon].d; -- 2.39.5