Commit 33cd6ea9 authored by Nam Cao's avatar Nam Cao Committed by Helge Deller

fbdev: flush deferred IO before closing

When framebuffer gets closed, the queued deferred IO gets cancelled. This
can cause some last display data to vanish. This is problematic for users
who send a still image to the framebuffer, then close the file: the image
may never appear.

To ensure none of display data get lost, flush the queued deferred IO
first before closing.

Another possible solution is to delete the cancel_delayed_work_sync()
instead. The difference is that the display may appear some time after
closing. However, the clearing of page mapping after this needs to be
removed too, because the page mapping is used by the deferred work. It is
not completely obvious whether it is okay to not clear the page mapping.
For a patch intended for stable trees, go with the simple and obvious
solution.

Fixes: 60b59bea ("fbdev: mm: Deferred IO support")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: default avatarNam Cao <namcao@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: default avatarSebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
parent 15e4c1f4
......@@ -313,7 +313,7 @@ static void fb_deferred_io_lastclose(struct fb_info *info)
struct page *page;
int i;
cancel_delayed_work_sync(&info->deferred_work);
flush_delayed_work(&info->deferred_work);
/* clear out the mapping that we setup */
for (i = 0 ; i < info->fix.smem_len; i += PAGE_SIZE) {
......
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