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authorTomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>2014-12-18 13:40:06 +0200
committerJiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>2015-01-28 09:27:34 +0100
commit8871196bc148ee2e2e731a541666acdcf21609e4 (patch)
tree025973dcac3c72095b79d5bd1d0c860ba31bd4b8 /drivers/video
parent8e2aaf56683302f62e6e5bd5dc793deaca0076c2 (diff)
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video/logo: prevent use of logos after they have been freed
commit 92b004d1aa9f367c372511ca0330f58216b25703 upstream. If the probe of an fb driver has been deferred due to missing dependencies, and the probe is later ran when a module is loaded, the fbdev framework will try to find a logo to use. However, the logos are __initdata, and have already been freed. This causes sometimes page faults, if the logo memory is not mapped, sometimes other random crashes as the logo data is invalid, and sometimes nothing, if the fbdev decides to reject the logo (e.g. the random value depicting the logo's height is too big). This patch adds a late_initcall function to mark the logos as freed. In reality the logos are freed later, and fbdev probe may be ran between this late_initcall and the freeing of the logos. In that case we will miss drawing the logo, even if it would be possible. Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/video')
-rw-r--r--drivers/video/logo/logo.c17
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/video/logo/logo.c b/drivers/video/logo/logo.c
index 080c35b34bbb..cc5dbb5b2f71 100644
--- a/drivers/video/logo/logo.c
+++ b/drivers/video/logo/logo.c
@@ -25,6 +25,21 @@ static bool nologo;
module_param(nologo, bool, 0);
MODULE_PARM_DESC(nologo, "Disables startup logo");
+/*
+ * Logos are located in the initdata, and will be freed in kernel_init.
+ * Use late_init to mark the logos as freed to prevent any further use.
+ */
+
+static bool logos_freed;
+
+static int __init fb_logo_late_init(void)
+{
+ logos_freed = true;
+ return 0;
+}
+
+late_initcall(fb_logo_late_init);
+
/* logo's are marked __initdata. Use __init_refok to tell
* modpost that it is intended that this function uses data
* marked __initdata.
@@ -33,7 +48,7 @@ const struct linux_logo * __init_refok fb_find_logo(int depth)
{
const struct linux_logo *logo = NULL;
- if (nologo)
+ if (nologo || logos_freed)
return NULL;
if (depth >= 1) {