drm/i915: Fix crash when failing to parse MIPI VBT
commit ed3b6679 upstream. This particular nasty presented itself while trying to register the intelfb device (intel_fbdev.c). During the process of registering the device the driver will disable the crtc via i9xx_crtc_disable. These will also disable the panel using the generic mipi panel functions in dsi_mod_vbt_generic.c. The stale MIPI generic data sequence pointers would cause a crash within those functions. However, all of this is happening while console_lock is held from do_register_framebuffer inside fbcon.c. Which means that you got kernel log and just the device appearing to reboot/hang for no apparent reason. The fault started from the FB_EVENT_FB_REGISTERED event using the fb_notifier_call_chain call in fbcon.c. This regression has been introduced in commit d3b542fc Author: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> Date: Mon Apr 14 11:00:34 2014 +0530 drm/i915: Add parsing support for new MIPI blocks in VBT Cc: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Rafael Barbalho <rafael.barbalho@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Shobhit Kumar <shobhit.kumar@intel.com> [danvet: Add regression citation.] Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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