fbdev/vesafb: Use screen_info pointer from device
authorThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Wed, 6 Dec 2023 13:50:29 +0000 (14:50 +0100)
committerThomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 10:26:34 +0000 (11:26 +0100)
Use the screen_info instance from the device instead of dereferencing
the global screen_info state. Decouples the driver from per-architecture
code. Duplicated the screen_info data, so that vesafb can modify it at
will.

v2:
* comment on devm_kmemdup() usage (Javier)

Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Reviewed-by: Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20231206135153.2599-5-tzimmermann@suse.de
drivers/video/fbdev/vesafb.c

index ea89accbec385df2c88475daddd42fca9f755cc9..8ab64ae4cad3ec4215852bb79a74de62c7c6f69a 100644 (file)
@@ -243,7 +243,7 @@ static int vesafb_setup(char *options)
 
 static int vesafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
 {
-       struct screen_info *si = &screen_info;
+       struct screen_info *si;
        struct fb_info *info;
        struct vesafb_par *par;
        int i, err;
@@ -252,6 +252,18 @@ static int vesafb_probe(struct platform_device *dev)
        unsigned int size_total;
        char *option = NULL;
 
+       /*
+        * If we fail probing the device, the kernel might try a different
+        * driver. We get a copy of the attached screen_info, so that we can
+        * modify its values without affecting later drivers.
+        */
+       si = dev_get_platdata(&dev->dev);
+       if (!si)
+               return -ENODEV;
+       si = devm_kmemdup(&dev->dev, si, sizeof(*si), GFP_KERNEL);
+       if (!si)
+               return -ENOMEM;
+
        /* ignore error return of fb_get_options */
        fb_get_options("vesafb", &option);
        vesafb_setup(option);