fbdev: flush deferred IO before closing
authorNam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Mon, 18 Dec 2023 09:57:31 +0000 (10:57 +0100)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Thu, 25 Jan 2024 23:35:45 +0000 (15:35 -0800)
commit2db6388d8a7f315ec8dddcf7f21632efb2703cb9
tree8290c7150b09aa26e8cf30ee4fd33288d23248c3
parent1e3b051e971475219980e9a8698cbe8e39a09c88
fbdev: flush deferred IO before closing

commit 33cd6ea9c0673517cdb06ad5c915c6f22e9615fc upstream.

When framebuffer gets closed, the queued deferred IO gets cancelled. This
can cause some last display data to vanish. This is problematic for users
who send a still image to the framebuffer, then close the file: the image
may never appear.

To ensure none of display data get lost, flush the queued deferred IO
first before closing.

Another possible solution is to delete the cancel_delayed_work_sync()
instead. The difference is that the display may appear some time after
closing. However, the clearing of page mapping after this needs to be
removed too, because the page mapping is used by the deferred work. It is
not completely obvious whether it is okay to not clear the page mapping.
For a patch intended for stable trees, go with the simple and obvious
solution.

Fixes: 60b59beafba8 ("fbdev: mm: Deferred IO support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Nam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/video/fbdev/core/fb_defio.c