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USB: sisusbvga: Make console support depend on BROKEN
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commit 862ee69 upstream.

The console part of sisusbvga is broken vs. printk(). It uses in_atomic()
to detect contexts in which it cannot sleep despite the big fat comment in
preempt.h which says: Do not use in_atomic() in driver code.

in_atomic() does not work on kernels with CONFIG_PREEMPT_COUNT=n which
means that spin/rw_lock held regions are not detected by it.

There is no way to make this work by handing context information through to
the driver and this only can be solved once the core printk infrastructure
supports sleepable console drivers.

Make it depend on BROKEN for now.

Fixes: 1bbb4f2 ("[PATCH] USB: sisusb[vga] update")
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Thomas Winischhofer <thomas@winischhofer.net>
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201019101109.603244207@linutronix.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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Thomas Gleixner authored and gregkh committed Dec 21, 2020
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion drivers/usb/misc/sisusbvga/Kconfig
Expand Up @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ config USB_SISUSBVGA

config USB_SISUSBVGA_CON
bool "Text console and mode switching support" if USB_SISUSBVGA
depends on VT
depends on VT && BROKEN
select FONT_8x16
help
Say Y here if you want a VGA text console via the USB dongle or
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