Patch "drm/nouveau/bl: Fix oops on driver unbind" has been added to the 4.15-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

drm/nouveau/bl: Fix oops on driver unbind

to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
drm-nouveau-bl-fix-oops-on-driver-unbind.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>
Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2018 13:40:23 +0100
Subject: drm/nouveau/bl: Fix oops on driver unbind

From: Lukas Wunner <[email protected]>

commit 76f2e2bc627f7d08360ac731b6277d744d4eb599 upstream.

Unbinding nouveau on a dual GPU MacBook Pro oopses because we iterate over the bl_connectors list in nouveau_backlight_exit() but skipped initializing it in nouveau_backlight_init(). Stacktrace for posterity:

    BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000010
    IP: nouveau_backlight_exit+0x2b/0x70 [nouveau]
    nouveau_display_destroy+0x29/0x80 [nouveau]
    nouveau_drm_unload+0x65/0xe0 [nouveau]
    drm_dev_unregister+0x3c/0xe0 [drm]
    drm_put_dev+0x2e/0x60 [drm]
    nouveau_drm_device_remove+0x47/0x70 [nouveau]
    pci_device_remove+0x36/0xb0
    device_release_driver_internal+0x157/0x220
    driver_detach+0x39/0x70
    bus_remove_driver+0x51/0xd0
    pci_unregister_driver+0x2a/0xa0
    nouveau_drm_exit+0x15/0xfb0 [nouveau]
    SyS_delete_module+0x18c/0x290
    system_call_fast_compare_end+0xc/0x6f

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

@@ -268,13 +268,13 @@ nouveau_backlight_init(struct drm_device
 	struct nvif_device *device = &drm->client.device;
 	struct drm_connector *connector;
 
+	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&drm->bl_connectors);
+
 	if (apple_gmux_present()) {
 		NV_INFO(drm, "Apple GMUX detected: not registering Nouveau backlight interface\n");
 		return 0;
 	}
 
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&drm->bl_connectors);
-
 	list_for_each_entry(connector, &dev->mode_config.connector_list, head) {
 		if (connector->connector_type != DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_LVDS &&
 		    connector->connector_type != DRM_MODE_CONNECTOR_eDP)

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.15/drm-nouveau-bl-fix-oops-on-driver-unbind.patch