parallel panel display stopped working

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Fri Jul 09 2021 - 10:40:51 EST


Parallel (4 bits) panel display stopped working.
I have no time right now to bisect but I have noticed there was quite
a pile of patches from Lars to the driver recently (yeah, it seems for
a few months I haven't run my tests against the AUX display driver).

I believe the issue is there somewhere.

Moreover on the removal I have got an oops

[ 218.825445] kernel tried to execute NX-protected page - exploit
attempt? (uid: 0)
[ 218.832965] BUG: unable to handle page fault for address: ffff8f8f06559dc0
[ 218.839863] #PF: supervisor instruction fetch in kernel mode
[ 218.845540] #PF: error_code(0x0011) - permissions violation
[ 218.851132] PGD e601067 P4D e601067 PUD e602067 PMD 645a063 PTE
8000000006559063
[ 218.858587] Oops: 0011 [#1] SMP PTI
[ 218.862099] CPU: 0 PID: 7 Comm: kworker/u4:0 Tainted: G C
5.13.0+ #23
[ 218.869870] Hardware name: Intel Corporation Merrifield/BODEGA BAY,
BIOS 542 2015.01.21:18.19.48
[ 218.878681] Workqueue: kacpi_hotplug acpi_device_del_work_fn
[ 218.884380] RIP: 0010:0xffff8f8f06559dc0
[ 218.888328] Code: ff ff d2 2b 21 8c ff ff ff ff 08 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 78 34 fa 02 8f 8f ff ff 00 00 00 00 00
00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 <72> 65 67 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 3a 72 65
67 75 6c 61 74 6f 72 2e 30 2d
[ 218.907138] RSP: 0000:ffffad36c0043c90 EFLAGS: 00010246
[ 218.912387] RAX: ffff8f8f06559dc0 RBX: ffff8f8f062cbc00 RCX: ffff8f8f01239fc8
[ 218.919542] RDX: 000000002a3cccf8 RSI: 0000000000000001 RDI: ffff8f8f06559480
[ 218.926701] RBP: ffffffffc037e279 R08: 00000000d5832520 R09: 0000000000000001
[ 218.933856] R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000001 R12: ffff8f8f062cbc00
[ 218.941010] R13: ffffffffc038e028 R14: ffffffff8c5e0b60 R15: 00000000fffffffd
[ 218.948166] FS: 0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8f8f3e200000(0000)
knlGS:0000000000000000
[ 218.956286] CS: 0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
[ 218.962053] CR2: ffff8f8f06559dc0 CR3: 0000000002ef4000 CR4: 00000000001006f0
[ 218.969208] Call Trace:
[ 218.971678] ? hd44780_common_clear_display+0x17/0x30 [hd44780_common]
[ 218.978252] ? charlcd_write_char+0x21a/0x810 [charlcd]
[ 218.983519] ? charlcd_puts+0x30/0x60 [charlcd]
[ 218.988083] ? charlcd_unregister+0x24/0x70 [charlcd]
[ 218.993167] ? hd44780_remove+0x1e/0x30 [hd44780]
[ 218.997901] ? platform_remove+0x1f/0x40
...

Just for your information and with hope that somebody may test and/or
reproduce this and fix it. Later on I might find time to bisect the
other issue I mentioned above.

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With Best Regards,
Andy Shevchenko