[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "drm/nouveau/kms: take mode_config mutex in connector hotplug path" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

[Kamal Mostafa]

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

    drm/nouveau/kms: take mode_config mutex in connector hotplug path

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt3.

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

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From b5afde795d446751b3ffcbb7cfe43a98fc1ff59c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2016 08:56:51 +1000
Subject: drm/nouveau/kms: take mode_config mutex in connector hotplug path

commit 0a882cadbc63fd2da3994af7115b4ada2fcbd638 upstream.

fdo#93634

Signed-off-by: Ben Skeggs <bskeggs at redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c
index 3162040..05490ef 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/nouveau_connector.c
@@ -969,10 +969,13 @@ nouveau_connector_hotplug(struct nvif_notify *notify)

 		NV_DEBUG(drm, "%splugged %s\n", plugged ? "" : "un", name);

+		mutex_lock(&drm->dev->mode_config.mutex);
 		if (plugged)
 			drm_helper_connector_dpms(connector, DRM_MODE_DPMS_ON);
 		else
 			drm_helper_connector_dpms(connector, DRM_MODE_DPMS_OFF);
+		mutex_unlock(&drm->dev->mode_config.mutex);
+
 		drm_helper_hpd_irq_event(connector->dev);
 	}

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