mx3fb: fix NULL pointer dereference in screen blanking.

When blanking an already blanked framebuffer, a kernel NULL pointer
dereference occurred, because mx3fb driver handles all kinds of screen
blanking (normal, vsync suspend, powerdown) in the same way.
Certain programs (Xorg X11 server) first do a normal blank, followed by
a powerdown blank, which triggered the bug.

Add an additional safeguard and make sdc_disable_channel() safe against
multiple calls independent of other logic.

Signed-off-by: Michael Thalmeier <michael.thalmeier@hale.at>
Signed-off-by: Florian Tobias Schandinat <FlorianSchandinat@gmx.de>

diff --git a/drivers/video/mx3fb.c b/drivers/video/mx3fb.c
index bd768588cf10c8dca7a77fbf76c7564817bea5b4..e3406ab313059fcde53187f7bd9ea3f6352aff11 100644 (file)
--- a/drivers/video/mx3fb.c
+++ b/drivers/video/mx3fb.c
@@ -382,6 +382,9 @@ static void sdc_disable_channel(struct mx3fb_info *mx3_fbi)
        uint32_t enabled;
        unsigned long flags;
 
+       if (mx3_fbi->txd == NULL)
+               return;
+
        spin_lock_irqsave(&mx3fb->lock, flags);
 
        enabled = sdc_fb_uninit(mx3_fbi);
@@ -986,9 +989,19 @@ static void __blank(int blank, struct fb_info *fbi)
 {
        struct mx3fb_info *mx3_fbi = fbi->par;
        struct mx3fb_data *mx3fb = mx3_fbi->mx3fb;
+       int was_blank = mx3_fbi->blank;
 
        mx3_fbi->blank = blank;
 
+       /* Attention!
+        * Do not call sdc_disable_channel() for a channel that is disabled
+        * already! This will result in a kernel NULL pointer dereference
+        * (mx3_fbi->txd is NULL). Hide the fact, that all blank modes are
+        * handled equally by this driver.
+        */
+       if (blank > FB_BLANK_UNBLANK && was_blank > FB_BLANK_UNBLANK)
+               return;
+
        switch (blank) {
        case FB_BLANK_POWERDOWN:
        case FB_BLANK_VSYNC_SUSPEND: