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fbcon: fix race condition between console lock and cursor timer

So we've had a fair few reports of fbcon handover breakage between
efi/vesafb and i915 surface recently, so I dedicated a couple of
days to finding the problem.

Essentially the last thing we saw was the conflicting framebuffer
message and that was all.

So after much tracing with direct netconsole writes (printks
under console_lock not so useful), I think I found the race.

Thread A (driver load) Thread B (timer thread)
unbind_con_driver -> |
bind_con_driver -> |
vc->vc_sw->con_deinit -> |
fbcon_deinit -> |
console_lock() |
| |
| fbcon_flashcursor timer fires
| console_lock() <- blocked for A
|
|
fbcon_del_cursor_timer ->
del_timer_sync
(BOOM)

Of course because all of this is under the console lock,
we never see anything, also since we also just unbound the active
console guess what we never see anything.

Hopefully this fixes the problem for anyone seeing vesafb->kms
driver handoff.

Signed-off-by: David Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Tested-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Dave Airlie and committed by
Linus Torvalds
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drivers/video/console/fbcon.c
··· 372 372 struct vc_data *vc = NULL; 373 373 int c; 374 374 int mode; 375 + int ret; 375 376 376 - console_lock(); 377 + ret = console_trylock(); 378 + if (ret == 0) 379 + return; 380 + 377 381 if (ops && ops->currcon != -1) 378 382 vc = vc_cons[ops->currcon].d; 379 383