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A reference to the framebuffer device struct fb_info is stored in the file private data, but this reference could no longer be valid and must not be accessed directly. Instead, the file_fb_info() accessor function must be used since it does sanity checking to make sure that the fb_info is valid. This can happen for example if the registered framebuffer device is for a driver that just uses a framebuffer provided by the system firmware. In that case, the fbdev core would unregister the framebuffer device when a real video driver is probed and ask to remove conflicting framebuffers. The bug has been present for a long time but commit27599aacba("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal") unmasked it since the fbdev core started unregistering the framebuffers' devices associated. Fixes:27599aacba("fbdev: Hot-unplug firmware fb devices on forced removal") Reported-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech> Reported-by: Junxiao Chang <junxiao.chang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20220502135014.377945-1-javierm@redhat.com
Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.