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    drm/kms: Duct-tape for mode object lifetime checks · e0f32f78
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    commit 4f5368b5
    Author: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
    Date:   Fri Jun 14 08:17:23 2019 +0200
    
        drm/kms: Catch mode_object lifetime errors
    
    uncovered a bit a mess in dp drivers. Most drivers (from a quick look,
    all except i915) register all the dp stuff in their init code, which
    is too early. With CONFIG_DRM_DP_AUX_CHARDEV this will blow up,
    because drm_dp_aux_register tries to add a child to a device in sysfs
    (the connector) which doesn't even exist yet.
    
    No one seems to have cared thus far. But with the above change I also
    moved the setting of dev->registered after the ->load callback, in an
    attempt to keep old drivers from hitting any WARN_ON backtraces. But
    that moved radeon.ko from the "working, by accident" to "now also
    broken" category.
    
    Since this is a huge mess I figured a revert would be simplest. But
    this check has already caught issues in i915:
    
    commit 1b9bd096
    Author: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
    Date:   Tue Aug 20 19:16:57 2019 +0300
    
        drm/i915: Do not create a new max_bpc prop for MST connectors
    
    Hence I'd like to retain it. Fix the radeon regression by moving the
    setting of dev->registered back to were it was, and stop the
    backtraces with an explicit check for dev->driver->load.
    
    Everyone else will stay as broken with CONFIG_DRM_DP_AUX_CHARDEV. The
    next patch will improve the kerneldoc and add a todo entry for this.
    
    Fixes: 4f5368b5 ("drm/kms: Catch mode_object lifetime errors")
    Cc: Sean Paul <sean@poorly.run>
    Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>
    Reported-by: default avatarMichel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarMichel Dänzer <mdaenzer@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarMichel Dänzer <mdaenzer@redhat.com>
    Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>
    Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190917120936.7501-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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