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PCI/VGA: Don't assume the only VGA device on a system is `boot_vga`
authorMario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Tue, 6 Jan 2026 04:46:38 +0000 (22:46 -0600)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Sat, 17 Jan 2026 15:35:26 +0000 (16:35 +0100)
commit309a4c2fa676af3be92c3ef742cca96872852cc3
tree2b15d857ca6c0606fc39ae225f58c7da99a68127
parentc114a32a2e70b82d447f409f7ffcfa3058f9d5bd
PCI/VGA: Don't assume the only VGA device on a system is `boot_vga`

[ Upstream commit fd390ff144513eb0310c350b1cf5fa8d6ddd0c53 ]

Some systems ship with multiple display class devices but not all
of them are VGA devices. If the "only" VGA device on the system is not
used for displaying the image on the screen marking it as `boot_vga`
because nothing was found is totally wrong.

This behavior actually leads to mistakes of the wrong device being
advertised to userspace and then userspace can make incorrect decisions.

As there is an accurate `boot_display` sysfs file stop lying about
`boot_vga` by assuming if nothing is found it's the right device.

Reported-by: Aaron Erhardt <aer@tuxedocomputers.com>
Closes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220712
Tested-by: Aaron Erhardt <aer@tuxedocomputers.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Fixes: ad90860bd10ee ("fbcon: Use screen info to find primary device")
Tested-by: Luke D. Jones <luke@ljones.dev>
Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello (AMD) <superm1@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260106044638.52906-1-superm1@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
drivers/pci/vgaarb.c