fbcon: don't lose the console font across generic->chip driver switch
If grub2 loads efifb/vesafb, then when systemd starts it can set the console
font on that framebuffer device, however when we then load the native KMS
driver, the first thing it does is tear down the generic framebuffer driver.
The thing is the generic code is doing the right thing, it frees the font
because otherwise it would leak memory. However we can assume that if you
are removing the generic firmware driver (vesa/efi/offb), that a new driver
*should* be loading soon after, so we effectively leak the font.
However the old code left a dangling pointer in vc->vc_font.data and we
can now reuse that dangling pointer to load the font into the new
driver, now that we aren't freeing it.
Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=892340
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
diff --git a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
index fdefa8f..f8dbe76 100644
--- a/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
+++ b/drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
@@ -990,7 +990,7 @@
}
/* Setup default font */
- if (!p->fontdata) {
+ if (!p->fontdata && !vc->vc_font.data) {
if (!fontname[0] || !(font = find_font(fontname)))
font = get_default_font(info->var.xres,
info->var.yres,
@@ -1000,6 +1000,8 @@
vc->vc_font.height = font->height;
vc->vc_font.data = (void *)(p->fontdata = font->data);
vc->vc_font.charcount = 256; /* FIXME Need to support more fonts */
+ } else {
+ p->fontdata = vc->vc_font.data;
}
cols = FBCON_SWAP(ops->rotate, info->var.xres, info->var.yres);
@@ -1159,9 +1161,9 @@
ops->p = &fb_display[fg_console];
}
-static void fbcon_free_font(struct display *p)
+static void fbcon_free_font(struct display *p, bool freefont)
{
- if (p->userfont && p->fontdata && (--REFCOUNT(p->fontdata) == 0))
+ if (freefont && p->userfont && p->fontdata && (--REFCOUNT(p->fontdata) == 0))
kfree(p->fontdata - FONT_EXTRA_WORDS * sizeof(int));
p->fontdata = NULL;
p->userfont = 0;
@@ -1173,8 +1175,8 @@
struct fb_info *info;
struct fbcon_ops *ops;
int idx;
+ bool free_font = true;
- fbcon_free_font(p);
idx = con2fb_map[vc->vc_num];
if (idx == -1)
@@ -1185,6 +1187,8 @@
if (!info)
goto finished;
+ if (info->flags & FBINFO_MISC_FIRMWARE)
+ free_font = false;
ops = info->fbcon_par;
if (!ops)
@@ -1196,6 +1200,8 @@
ops->flags &= ~FBCON_FLAGS_INIT;
finished:
+ fbcon_free_font(p, free_font);
+
if (!con_is_bound(&fb_con))
fbcon_exit();