From 6ab20a05f4c7ed45632e24d5397d6284e192567d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Noralf=20Tr=C3=B8nnes?= <noralf@tronnes.org>
Date: Sun, 10 Feb 2019 14:10:39 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] drm/fb-helper: generic: Don't take module ref for fbcon
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Git-commit: 6ab20a05f4c7ed45632e24d5397d6284e192567d
Patch-mainline: v5.2-rc1
References: bsc#1111666

It's now safe to let fbcon unbind automatically on fbdev unregister.
The crash problem was fixed in commit 2122b40580dd
("fbdev: fbcon: Fix unregister crash when more than one framebuffer")

Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf@tronnes.org>
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190210131039.52664-13-noralf@tronnes.org
Acked-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>

---
 drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
index 0e9349ff2d16..04d23cb430bf 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_fb_helper.c
@@ -3024,7 +3024,8 @@ static int drm_fbdev_fb_open(struct fb_info *info, int user)
 {
 	struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = info->par;
 
-	if (!try_module_get(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner))
+	/* No need to take a ref for fbcon because it unbinds on unregister */
+	if (user && !try_module_get(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner))
 		return -ENODEV;
 
 	return 0;
@@ -3034,7 +3035,8 @@ static int drm_fbdev_fb_release(struct fb_info *info, int user)
 {
 	struct drm_fb_helper *fb_helper = info->par;
 
-	module_put(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner);
+	if (user)
+		module_put(fb_helper->dev->driver->fops->owner);
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
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