[3.16.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/vmwgfx: Fix an fb unlocking bug" has been added to the 3.16.y-ckt tree

Luis Henriques luis.henriques at canonical.com
Thu Feb 25 18:34:57 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/vmwgfx: Fix an fb unlocking bug

to the linux-3.16.y-queue branch of the 3.16.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-3.16.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.16.7-ckt25.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.16.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From ced18efa45a7d65f98a1336751322f7e5c2a3deb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jun 2015 10:10:36 -0700
Subject: drm/vmwgfx: Fix an fb unlocking bug

commit 12617971c443c50750a12a77ea0e08319d161975 upstream.

A regression introduced when the master ttm lock was split into two.

Reported-and-tested-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Brian Paul <brianp at vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c
index b031b48dbb3c..21a6ed819401 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_fb.c
@@ -396,12 +396,12 @@ static int vmw_fb_create_bo(struct vmw_private *vmw_priv,

 	*out = vmw_bo;

-	ttm_write_unlock(&vmw_priv->fbdev_master.lock);
+	ttm_write_unlock(&vmw_priv->reservation_sem);

 	return 0;

 err_unlock:
-	ttm_write_unlock(&vmw_priv->fbdev_master.lock);
+	ttm_write_unlock(&vmw_priv->reservation_sem);
 	return ret;
 }





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