On Fri, 2015-10-23 at 10:45 -0700, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> 4.2-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> 
> ------------------
> 
> From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
> 
> commit f231976c2e8964ceaa9250e57d27c35ff03825c2 upstream.
> 
> We need to do this in order to prevent accesses to the device while it's
> powered down.  Userspace may have an mmap of the fb, and there's no good
> way (that I know of) to prevent it from touching the device otherwise.
> 
> This fixes some nasty races between runpm and plymouth on some systems,
> which result in the GPU getting very upset and hanging the boot.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs@redhat.com>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> 
> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c |   24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 24 insertions(+)
> 
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c
> @@ -178,8 +178,30 @@ nouveau_fbcon_sync(struct fb_info *info)
>  > 	> return 0;
>  }
>  
> +static int
> +nouveau_fbcon_open(struct fb_info *info, int user)
> +{
> +> 	> struct nouveau_fbdev *fbcon = info->par;
> +> 	> struct nouveau_drm *drm = nouveau_drm(fbcon->dev);
> +> 	> int ret = pm_runtime_get_sync(drm->dev->dev);
> +	if (ret < 0 && ret != -EACCES)
> +		return ret;
> +> 	> return 0;
> +}
[...]

As pm_runtime_get_sync() always bumps the usage count, the error path
here should call pm_runtime_put().

Ben.
> 
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Ben Hutchings
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