Commit ee7a69aa38d8 ("fbdev: Disable sysfb device registration when removing conflicting FBs") was backported to 5.15.y LTS. This causes a regression where all virtual consoles stop responding during boot at:

"Populating /dev with existing devices through uevents ..."

The console is no longer responding, nor is it possible to switch to another virtual console. It is possible to force a reboot with CTRL+ALT+DEL.

The system is otherwise still working normally, and can be connected to over ssh.

This patch was not backported to 5.4.y or 5.10.y. Newer stable kernels with this patch (6.1.y, 6.6.y, 6.12,y, 6.15.y, 6.16.y) and mainline are unaffected.

There are a bunch of patches that touch fbmem.c in later stable kernels, and I started looking at this but it gets messy very quickly as e23a5e14aa27 is a merge commit.

Given this was an autoselected patch that was not backported to fix any specific issue the simplest and cleanest fix is to simply revert.

Bisection log:

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Brett A C Sheffield (1): Revert "fbdev: Disable sysfb device registration when removing conflicting FBs"

drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-)