![]() This just adds the refcount and the new registration lock logic. It does not (for example) actually change the read/write/ioctl routines to actually use the frame buffer that was opened: those function still end up alway susing whatever the current frame buffer is at the time of the call. Without this, if something holds the frame buffer open over a framebuffer switch, the close() operation after the switch will access a fb_info that has been free'd by the unregistering of the old frame buffer. (The read/write/ioctl operations will normally not cause problems, because they will - illogically - pick up the new fbcon instead. But a switch that happens just as one of those is going on might see problems too, the window is just much smaller: one individual op rather than the whole open-close sequence.) This use-after-free is apparently fairly easily triggered by the Ubuntu 11.04 boot sequence. Acked-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Tested-by: Daniel J Blueman <daniel.blueman@gmail.com> Tested-by: Anca Emanuel <anca.emanuel@gmail.com> Cc: Bruno Prémont <bonbons@linux-vserver.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <andy.whitcroft@canonical.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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