[v3,4/5] fbdev: Fix some race conditions between fbmem and sysfb

The platform devices registered in sysfb match with a firmware-based fbdev
or DRM driver, that are used to have early graphics using framebuffers set
up by the system firmware.

Real DRM drivers later are probed and remove all conflicting framebuffers,
leading to these platform devices for generic drivers to be unregistered.

But the current solution has two issues that this patch fixes:

1) It is a layering violation for the fbdev core to unregister a device
   that was registered by sysfb.

   Instead, the sysfb_try_unregister() helper function can be called for
   sysfb to attempt unregistering the device if is the one registered.

2) The sysfb_init() function could be called after a DRM driver is probed
   and requested to unregister devices for drivers with a conflicting fb.

   To prevent this, disable any future sysfb platform device registration
   by calling sysfb_disable(), if a driver requested to remove conflicting
   framebuffers with remove_conflicting_framebuffers().

There are video drivers (e.g: vga16fb) that register their own device and
don't use the sysfb infrastructure for that, so an unregistration has to
be forced by fbmem if sysfb_try_unregister() fails to do the unregister.

Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
---

(no changes since v2)

Changes in v2:
- Explain in the commit message that fbmem has to unregister the device
  as fallback if a driver registered the device itself (Daniel Vetter).
- Also explain that fallback in a comment in the code (Daniel Vetter).
- Don't encode in fbmem the assumption that sysfb will always register
  platform devices (Daniel Vetter).
- Add a FIXME comment about drivers registering devices (Daniel Vetter).

 drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

Hi

Am 20.04.22 um 10:53 schrieb Javier Martinez Canillas:
> The platform devices registered in sysfb match with a firmware-based fbdev
> or DRM driver, that are used to have early graphics using framebuffers set
> up by the system firmware.
> 
> Real DRM drivers later are probed and remove all conflicting framebuffers,
> leading to these platform devices for generic drivers to be unregistered.
> 
> But the current solution has two issues that this patch fixes:
> 
> 1) It is a layering violation for the fbdev core to unregister a device
>     that was registered by sysfb.

Why? We do this elsewhere and it works nicely.

> 
>     Instead, the sysfb_try_unregister() helper function can be called for
>     sysfb to attempt unregistering the device if is the one registered.

And sysfb_try_unregister() is really just a glorified version of 
platform_device_unregister() IMHO.

> 
> 2) The sysfb_init() function could be called after a DRM driver is probed
>     and requested to unregister devices for drivers with a conflicting fb.
> 
>     To prevent this, disable any future sysfb platform device registration
>     by calling sysfb_disable(), if a driver requested to remove conflicting
>     framebuffers with remove_conflicting_framebuffers().

As I mentioned in another comment, as soon as there's anything else than 
EFI/VESA using the sysfb code the unregistering step is likely to break 
in some way.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> There are video drivers (e.g: vga16fb) that register their own device and
> don't use the sysfb infrastructure for that, so an unregistration has to
> be forced by fbmem if sysfb_try_unregister() fails to do the unregister.
> 
> Suggested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
> Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
> ---
> 
> (no changes since v2)
> 
> Changes in v2:
> - Explain in the commit message that fbmem has to unregister the device
>    as fallback if a driver registered the device itself (Daniel Vetter).
> - Also explain that fallback in a comment in the code (Daniel Vetter).
> - Don't encode in fbmem the assumption that sysfb will always register
>    platform devices (Daniel Vetter).
> - Add a FIXME comment about drivers registering devices (Daniel Vetter).
> 
>   drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>   1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> index 0bb459258df3..8098305879f8 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@
>   #include <linux/kernel.h>
>   #include <linux/major.h>
>   #include <linux/slab.h>
> +#include <linux/sysfb.h>
>   #include <linux/mm.h>
>   #include <linux/mman.h>
>   #include <linux/vt.h>
> @@ -1585,18 +1586,38 @@ static void do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
>   			if (!device) {
>   				pr_warn("fb%d: no device set\n", i);
>   				do_unregister_framebuffer(registered_fb[i]);
> -			} else if (dev_is_platform(device)) {
> +			} else {
>   				/*
>   				 * Drop the lock because if the device is unregistered, its
>   				 * driver will call to unregister_framebuffer(), that takes
>   				 * this lock.
>   				 */
>   				mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);
> -				platform_device_unregister(to_platform_device(device));
> +				/*
> +				 * First attempt the device to be unregistered by sysfb.
> +				 */
> +				if (!sysfb_try_unregister(device)) {
> +					if (dev_is_platform(device)) {
> +						/*
> +						 * FIXME: sysfb didn't register this device, is a platform
> +						 * device registered by a video driver (e.g: vga16fb), so
> +						 * force its unregistration here. A proper fix would be to
> +						 * move all device registration to the sysfb infrastructure
> +						 * or platform code.
> +						 */
> +						platform_device_unregister(to_platform_device(device));
> +					} else {
> +						/*
> +						 * If is not a platform device, at least print a warning. A
> +						 * fix would add to make the code that registered the device
> +						 * to also unregister it.
> +						 */
> +						pr_warn("fb%d: cannot remove device\n", i);
> +						/* call unregister_framebuffer() since the lock was dropped */
> +						unregister_framebuffer(registered_fb[i]);
> +					}
> +				}
>   				mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
> -			} else {
> -				pr_warn("fb%d: cannot remove device\n", i);
> -				do_unregister_framebuffer(registered_fb[i]);
>   			}
>   			/*
>   			 * Restart the removal loop now that the device has been
> @@ -1762,6 +1783,17 @@ int remove_conflicting_framebuffers(struct apertures_struct *a,
>   		do_free = true;
>   	}
>   
> +	/*
> +	 * If a driver asked to unregister a platform device registered by
> +	 * sysfb, then can be assumed that this is a driver for a display
> +	 * that is set up by the system firmware and has a generic driver.
> +	 *
> +	 * Drivers for devices that don't have a generic driver will never
> +	 * ask for this, so let's assume that a real driver for the display
> +	 * was already probed and prevent sysfb to register devices later.
> +	 */
> +	sysfb_disable();
> +
>   	mutex_lock(&registration_lock);
>   	do_remove_conflicting_framebuffers(a, name, primary);
>   	mutex_unlock(&registration_lock);