This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
to the 6.12-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
drm-fbcon-vga_switcheroo-avoid-race-condition-in-fbcon-setup.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.12 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From [email protected] Tue Dec 2 21:23:22
>2025
From: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 2 Dec 2025 15:23:12 -0500
Subject: drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
To: [email protected]
Cc: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>, Javier Martinez Canillas
<[email protected]>, Alex Deucher <[email protected]>,
[email protected], [email protected],
[email protected], [email protected], Sasha Levin
<[email protected]>
Message-ID: <[email protected]>
From: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
[ Upstream commit eb76d0f5553575599561010f24c277cc5b31d003 ]
Protect vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set() with console lock. Avoids OOB
access in fbcon_remap_all(). Without holding the console lock the call
races with switching outputs.
VGA switcheroo calls fbcon_remap_all() when switching clients. The fbcon
function uses struct fb_info.node, which is set by register_framebuffer().
As the fb-helper code currently sets up VGA switcheroo before registering
the framebuffer, the value of node is -1 and therefore not a legal value.
For example, fbcon uses the value within set_con2fb_map() [1] as an index
into an array.
Moving vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set() after register_framebuffer() can
result in VGA switching that does not switch fbcon correctly.
Therefore move vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set() under fbcon_fb_registered(),
which already holds the console lock. Fbdev calls fbcon_fb_registered()
from within register_framebuffer(). Serializes the helper with VGA
switcheroo's call to fbcon_remap_all().
Although vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set() takes an instance of struct fb_info
as parameter, it really only needs the contained fbcon state. Moving the
call to fbcon initialization is therefore cleaner than before. Only amdgpu,
i915, nouveau and radeon support vga_switcheroo. For all other drivers,
this change does nothing.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <[email protected]>
Link:
https://elixir.bootlin.com/linux/v6.17/source/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c#L2942
# [1]
Fixes: 6a9ee8af344e ("vga_switcheroo: initial implementation (v15)")
Acked-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: <[email protected]> # v2.6.34+
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 6 ------
drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c | 6 ------
drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fbdev.c | 5 -----
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c | 9 +++++++++
4 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -30,9 +30,7 @@
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
#include <linux/console.h>
-#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/sysrq.h>
-#include <linux/vga_switcheroo.h>
#include <drm/drm_atomic.h>
#include <drm/drm_drv.h>
@@ -1637,10 +1635,6 @@ static int drm_fb_helper_single_fb_probe
strcpy(fb_helper->fb->comm, "[fbcon]");
- /* Set the fb info for vgaswitcheroo clients. Does nothing otherwise. */
- if (dev_is_pci(dev->dev))
- vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(to_pci_dev(dev->dev),
fb_helper->info);
-
return 0;
}
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/display/intel_fbdev.c
@@ -589,11 +589,8 @@ static int intel_fbdev_restore_mode(stru
static void intel_fbdev_client_unregister(struct drm_client_dev *client)
{
struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = drm_fb_helper_from_client(client);
- struct drm_device *dev = fb_helper->dev;
- struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev->dev);
if (fb_helper->info) {
- vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(pdev, NULL);
drm_fb_helper_unregister_info(fb_helper);
} else {
drm_fb_helper_unprepare(fb_helper);
@@ -620,7 +617,6 @@ static int intel_fbdev_client_hotplug(st
{
struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = drm_fb_helper_from_client(client);
struct drm_device *dev = client->dev;
- struct pci_dev *pdev = to_pci_dev(dev->dev);
int ret;
if (dev->fb_helper)
@@ -634,8 +630,6 @@ static int intel_fbdev_client_hotplug(st
if (ret)
goto err_drm_fb_helper_fini;
- vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(pdev, fb_helper->info);
-
return 0;
err_drm_fb_helper_fini:
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fbdev.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/radeon_fbdev.c
@@ -300,10 +300,8 @@ static void radeon_fbdev_client_unregist
{
struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = drm_fb_helper_from_client(client);
struct drm_device *dev = fb_helper->dev;
- struct radeon_device *rdev = dev->dev_private;
if (fb_helper->info) {
- vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(rdev->pdev, NULL);
drm_helper_force_disable_all(dev);
drm_fb_helper_unregister_info(fb_helper);
} else {
@@ -325,7 +323,6 @@ static int radeon_fbdev_client_hotplug(s
{
struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = drm_fb_helper_from_client(client);
struct drm_device *dev = client->dev;
- struct radeon_device *rdev = dev->dev_private;
int ret;
if (dev->fb_helper)
@@ -342,8 +339,6 @@ static int radeon_fbdev_client_hotplug(s
if (ret)
goto err_drm_fb_helper_fini;
- vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(rdev->pdev, fb_helper->info);
-
return 0;
err_drm_fb_helper_fini:
--- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbcon.c
@@ -65,6 +65,7 @@
#include <linux/string.h>
#include <linux/kd.h>
#include <linux/panic.h>
+#include <linux/pci.h>
#include <linux/printk.h>
#include <linux/slab.h>
#include <linux/fb.h>
@@ -77,6 +78,7 @@
#include <linux/interrupt.h>
#include <linux/crc32.h> /* For counting font checksums */
#include <linux/uaccess.h>
+#include <linux/vga_switcheroo.h>
#include <asm/irq.h>
#include "fbcon.h"
@@ -2894,6 +2896,9 @@ void fbcon_fb_unregistered(struct fb_inf
console_lock();
+ if (info->device && dev_is_pci(info->device))
+ vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(to_pci_dev(info->device), NULL);
+
fbcon_registered_fb[info->node] = NULL;
fbcon_num_registered_fb--;
@@ -3027,6 +3032,10 @@ static int do_fb_registered(struct fb_in
}
}
+ /* Set the fb info for vga_switcheroo clients. Does nothing otherwise.
*/
+ if (info->device && dev_is_pci(info->device))
+ vga_switcheroo_client_fb_set(to_pci_dev(info->device), info);
+
return ret;
}
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