drm: inhibit drm drivers register to uninitialized drm core

If the DRM core fails to init for whatever reason, ensure that
no driver ever calls drm_dev_register().

This is best done at drm_dev_init() as it covers drivers that call
drm_dev_alloc() as well as drivers that prefer to embed struct
drm_device into their own device struct and call drm_dev_init()
themselves.

In my case I had so many dynamic device majors used that the major
number for DRM (226) was stolen, causing DRM core init to fail after
failing to register a chrdev, and ultimately calling debugfs_remove()
on drm_debugfs_root in drm_core_exit().

After drm core failed to init, VGEM was still calling drm_dev_register(),
ultimately leading to drm_debugfs_init(), with drm_debugfs_root passed
as the root for the new debugfs dir at debugfs_create_dir().

This led to a kernel panic once we were either derefencing root->d_inode
while it was NULL or calling root->d_inode->i_op->lookup() while it was
NULL in debugfs at inode_lock() or lookup_*().

Signed-off-by: Alexandru Moise <00moses.alexander00@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170708214352.GA27205@gmail.com

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