fbdev: lock_fb_info cannot fail
Ever since commit c47747fd Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Date: Wed May 11 14:58:34 2011 -0700 fbmem: make read/write/ioctl use the frame buffer at open time fbdev has gained proper refcounting for the fbinfo attached to any open files, which means that the backing driver (stored in fb_info->fbops) cannot untimely disappear anymore. The only thing that can happen is that the entire device just outright disappears and gets unregistered, but file_fb_info does check for that. Except that it's racy - it only checks once at the start of a file_ops, there's no guarantee that the underlying fbdev won't untimely disappear. Aside: A proper way to fix that race is probably to replicate the srcu trickery we've rolled out in drm. But given that this race has existed since forever it's probably not one we need to fix right away. do_unregister_framebuffer also nowhere clears fb_info->fbops, hence the check in lock_fb_info can't possible catch a disappearing fbdev later on. Long story short: Ever since the above commit the fb_info->fbops checks have essentially become dead code. Remove this all. Aside from the file_ops callbacks, and stuff called from there there's only register/unregister code left. If that goes wrong a driver managed to register/unregister a device instance twice or in the wrong order. That's just a driver bug. v2: - fb_mmap had an open-coded version of the fbinfo->fops check, because it doesn't need the fbinfo->lock. Delete that too. - Use the wrapper function in fb_open/release now, since no difference anymore. Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Reviewed-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@samsung.com> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Cc: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> Cc: Yisheng Xie <ysxie@foxmail.com> Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Cc: "Noralf Trønnes" <noralf@tronnes.org> Cc: Peter Rosin <peda@axentia.se> Cc: "Michał Mirosław" <mirq-linux@rere.qmqm.pl> Cc: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Cc: "Gustavo A. R. Silva" <gustavo@embeddedor.com> Cc: linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190528090304.9388-17-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
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