framebuffer core · Odd Fixes

Maintainers

• M Simona Vetter <simona@ffwll.ch>

Paths

• F drivers/video/fbdev/core/

Last 30 days

Most active threads (last 7 days)

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 0/6] Boot logo supplied by the device tree
  2026-07-31 21:50 · 1 reply in 7d · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH V3] fbdev: Fix out-of-bounds access when rotating console after font resize
  2026-07-29 02:21 · 0 replies in 7d · Zizhi Wo <hidden>

Active reviewers (last 30 days)

• Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
  1 attestation (1 Acked-by) · last on 2026-07-11

Recent patches

Most-recent 30 patches in this subsystem on linux-fbdev (capped at 30), ordered by date desc.

• HOTtoday [RFC PATCH 3/6] fbdev: honour the device tree boot logo placement properties
  2026-07-31 · Max Pedraza <hidden>
• WARM1d [PATCH V3] fbdev: Fix out-of-bounds access when rotating console after font resize
  2026-07-29 · Zizhi Wo <hidden>
• COOLING5d [PATCH V2] fbdev: Fix out-of-bounds access when rotating console after font resize
  2026-07-22 · Zizhi Wo <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH] fbdev: core: Fix pointer desynchronization in fb_io_read()
  2026-07-21 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• COOLING7d [PATCH v2] fbdev: core: Clamp total_size to smem_len in read/write functions
  2026-07-21 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• COOLING12d [PATCH] fbdev: core: Clamp total_size to smem_len in fb_io_read/write
  2026-07-20 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• COOLING10d IN LINUX-NEXT: 3 (3M) [PATCH v2 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-07-11 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COOLING12d [PATCH v2 5/7] drm: Implement struct vga_switcheroo_client_ops.pre_switch
  2026-07-09 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COLD24d [PATCH 10/10] vga-switcheroo: Remove unused interfaces
  2026-07-07 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 3/3] fbdev: serialize mode sysfs access with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 2/3] fbdev: clear fb_info->mode before deleting a videomode
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v3 1/3] fbdev: bound mode sysfs output to the sysfs buffer
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2 2/2] fbdev: serialize mode sysfs access with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH v2 1/2] fbdev: bound mode sysfs output to the sysfs buffer
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COOLING14d [PATCH] fbdev: protect mode sysfs reads with lock_fb_info()
  2026-07-01 · Melbin K Mathew <hidden>
• COLD21d [PATCH 08/13] mm: introduce vma_get_page_prot() and use it
  2026-06-29 · Lorenzo Stoakes <ljs@kernel.org>
• COLD36d [PATCH v2] fbdev: fix use-after-free in store_modes()
  2026-06-26 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COLD37d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-25 · Mingyu Wang <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH] fbdev: Fix fb_new_modelist to prevent null-ptr-deref in fb_videomode_to_var
  2026-06-25 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COLD36d [PATCH] fbcon: fix NULL pointer dereference for a console without vc_data
  2026-06-24 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COLD37d [PATCH] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-24 · <hidden>
• COLD40d LANDED [PATCH] fbdev: fix use-after-free of fb_display[i].mode in store_modes()
  2026-06-22 · Ian Bridges <hidden>
• COLD44d [PATCH] fbcon: Avoid OOB font access if console rotation fails
  2026-06-18 · HAN Ruidong via B4 Relay <devnull+rdhan.smu.edu.sg@kernel.org>
• COLD28d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH 6.6 066/452] drm, fbcon, vga_switcheroo: Avoid race condition in fbcon setup
  2026-06-16 · Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
• COLD50d [PATCH] fbdev: modedb: Fix misaligned fields in the 1920x1080-60 mode
  2026-06-12 · Steffen Persvold <hidden>
• COLD51d [PATCH v2] fbdev:modedb: fix a possible UAF in fb_find_mode()
  2026-06-10 · Tuo Li <hidden>
• COLD53d [PATCH] fbdev: modedb: keep mode option buffer until parsing completes
  2026-06-09 · Ruoyu Wang <hidden>
• COLD53d [PATCH] fbcon: correct CONFIG_FB_TILEBLITTING macro name in #endif comment
  2026-06-09 · Ethan Nelson-Moore <hidden>
• COLD52d Re: [PATCH] fbdev:modedb: fix a possible UAF in fb_find_mode()
  2026-06-07 · Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
• DORMANTno replies [PATCH v2] fbcon: do suspend/resume only when vc is text mode and visible
  2026-06-01 · <hidden>

Needs attention (review trailers in, no pickup)

Patches with review trailers that haven't landed in mainline and haven't been Acked by a maintainer. Oldest first.

• COLD37d REVIEWED: 7 (7M) [PATCH v2] fbdev: fbcon: fix out-of-bounds read in err_out of fbcon_do_set_font()
  2026-06-25 · Mingyu Wang <hidden> · 1 Reviewed-by

Quiet for 30+ days

Patches with no review trailers and no replies. Either the author is heads-down elsewhere or these slipped through. Oldest first.

• DORMANTno replies [PATCH 5.10.y] fbcon: Fix the issue of uninitialized charcount in the remaining consoles
  2026-01-05 · Luo Gengkun <hidden>
• STALE159d [PATCH 1/4] fbdev: defio: Disconnect deferred I/O from the lifetime of struct fb_info
  2026-01-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE159d [PATCH 3/4] fbdev: defio: Move variable state into struct fb_deferred_io_state
  2026-01-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE159d [PATCH 2/4] fbdev: defio: Keep module reference from VMAs
  2026-01-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE159d [PATCH 4/4] fbdev: defio: Move pageref array to struct fb_deferred_io_state
  2026-01-22 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE152d [PATCH 03/13] vt: Store font in struct vc_font
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE152d [PATCH 04/13] vt: Calculate font-buffer size with vc_font_size()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE152d [PATCH 08/13] lib/fonts: Read font size with font_data_size()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE152d [PATCH 11/13] lib/fonts: Create font_data_t from struct console_font with font_data_import()
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
• STALE152d [PATCH 01/13] fbdev: Declare src parameter of fb_pad_ helpers as constant
  2026-02-18 · Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>