Patch "drm/nouveau: fix for disabled fbdev emulation" has been added to the 4.6-stable tree
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This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
drm/nouveau: fix for disabled fbdev emulation
to the 4.6-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-fix-for-disabled-fbdev-emulation.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.6 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.
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52dfcc5ccfbb6697ac3cac7f7ff1e712760e1216Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Dmitrii Tcvetkov <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2016 13:52:14 +0300
Subject: drm/nouveau: fix for disabled fbdev emulation
From: Dmitrii Tcvetkov <[email protected]>
commit 52dfcc5ccfbb6697ac3cac7f7ff1e712760e1216 upstream.
Hello,
after this commit:
commit f045f459d925138fe7d6193a8c86406bda7e49da
Author: Ben Skeggs <[email protected]> Date: Thu Jun 2 12:23:31 2016 +1000
drm/nouveau/fbcon: fix out-of-bounds memory accesses
kernel started to oops when loading nouveau module when using GTX 780 Ti video adapter. This patch fixes the problem.
Bug report: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=120591
--- drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_fbcon.c +2 -1
@@ -557,7 +557,8 @@ nouveau_fbcon_init(struct drm_device *deif (ret) goto fini; - fbcon->helper.fbdev->pixmap.buf_align =4 ; +if (fbcon->helper.fbdev) + fbcon->helper.fbdev->pixmap.buf_align =4 ;return 0 ; fini:
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-4.6/drm-nouveau-fix-for-disabled-fbdev-emulation.patch