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fb: rework locking to fix lock ordering on takeover

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Adjust the console layer to allow a take over call where the caller
already holds the locks.  Make the fb layer lock in order.

This is partly a band aid, the fb layer is terminally confused about the
locking rules it uses for its notifiers it seems.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove stray non-ascii char, tidy comment]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: export do_take_over_console()]
[airlied: cleanup another non-ascii char]
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Cc: stable <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Tested-by: Sedat Dilek <sedat.dilek@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Alan Cox
2013-01-25 10:28:15 +10:00
committed by Dave Airlie
parent 84b603abd2
commit 50e244cc79
5 changed files with 104 additions and 27 deletions
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drivers/video/fbsysfs.c
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@@ -177,6 +177,8 @@ static ssize_t store_modes(struct device *device,
if (i * sizeof(struct fb_videomode) != count)
return -EINVAL;
if (!lock_fb_info(fb_info))
return -ENODEV;
console_lock();
list_splice(&fb_info->modelist, &old_list);
fb_videomode_to_modelist((const struct fb_videomode *)buf, i,
@@ -188,6 +190,7 @@ static ssize_t store_modes(struct device *device,
fb_destroy_modelist(&old_list);
console_unlock();
unlock_fb_info(fb_info);
return 0;
}