[3.13.y.z extended stable] Patch "drm/tilcdc: slave: fix dangling sysfs connector node" has been added to staging queue

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Mon Sep 15 22:07:34 UTC 2014


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    drm/tilcdc: slave: fix dangling sysfs connector node

to the linux-3.13.y-queue branch of the 3.13.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.13.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.13.11.7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.13.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 11:17:05 -0300
Subject: drm/tilcdc: slave: fix dangling sysfs connector node
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commit daa15b4cd1eee58eb1322062a3320b1dbe5dc96e upstream.

Add a drm_sysfs_connector_remove call when we destroy the panel to make
sure the connector node in sysfs gets deleted.

This is required for proper unload and re-load of this driver as a
module. Without this, we would get a warning at re-load time like so:

   tda998x 0-0070: found TDA19988
   ------------[ cut here ]------------
   WARNING: CPU: 0 PID: 825 at fs/sysfs/dir.c:31 sysfs_warn_dup+0x54/0x74()
   sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/class/drm/card0-HDMI-A-1'
   Modules linked in: [..]
   CPU: 0 PID: 825 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 3.15.0-rc4-00027-g9dcdef4 #82
   [<c0013bb8>] (unwind_backtrace) from [<c0011824>] (show_stack+0x10/0x14)
   [<c0011824>] (show_stack) from [<c0034e8c>] (warn_slowpath_common+0x68/0x88)
   [<c0034e8c>] (warn_slowpath_common) from [<c0034edc>] (warn_slowpath_fmt+0x30/0x40)
   [<c0034edc>] (warn_slowpath_fmt) from [<c01243f4>] (sysfs_warn_dup+0x54/0x74)
   [<c01243f4>] (sysfs_warn_dup) from [<c0124708>] (sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.2+0xb0/0xb8)
   [<c0124708>] (sysfs_do_create_link_sd.isra.2) from [<c02ae37c>] (device_add+0x338/0x520)
   [<c02ae37c>] (device_add) from [<c02ae6e8>] (device_create_groups_vargs+0xa0/0xc4)
   [<c02ae6e8>] (device_create_groups_vargs) from [<c02ae758>] (device_create+0x24/0x2c)
   [<c02ae758>] (device_create) from [<c029b4ec>] (drm_sysfs_connector_add+0x64/0x204)
   [<c029b4ec>] (drm_sysfs_connector_add) from [<bf0b1b40>] (slave_modeset_init+0x120/0x1bc [tilcdc])
   [<bf0b1b40>] (slave_modeset_init [tilcdc]) from [<bf0b2be8>] (tilcdc_load+0x214/0x4c0 [tilcdc])
   [<bf0b2be8>] (tilcdc_load [tilcdc]) from [<c029955c>] (drm_dev_register+0xa4/0x104)
      [..snip..]
   ---[ end trace 4df8d614936ebdee ]---
   [drm:drm_sysfs_connector_add] *ERROR* failed to register connector device: -17

Signed-off-by: Guido Martínez <guido at vanguardiasur.com.ar>
Tested-by: Darren Etheridge <detheridge at ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave.c | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave.c
index 595068b..2f83ffb 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/tilcdc/tilcdc_slave.c
@@ -166,6 +166,7 @@ struct slave_connector {
 static void slave_connector_destroy(struct drm_connector *connector)
 {
 	struct slave_connector *slave_connector = to_slave_connector(connector);
+	drm_sysfs_connector_remove(connector);
 	drm_connector_cleanup(connector);
 	kfree(slave_connector);
 }
--
1.9.1





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