[PATCH v3 03/11] drm/i915: return EACCES for check_cmd() failures

[Robert Bragg]

check_cmd() is checking whether a command adheres to certain
restrictions that ensure it's safe to execute within a privileged batch
buffer. Returning false implies a privilege problem, not that the
command is invalid.

The distinction makes the difference between allowing the buffer to be
executed as an unprivileged batch buffer or returning an EINVAL error to
userspace without executing anything.

In a case where userspace may want to test whether it can successfully
write to a register that needs privileges the distinction may be
important and an EINVAL error may be considered fatal.

In particular this is currently true for Mesa, which includes a test for
whether OACONTROL can be written too, but Mesa treats any error when
flushing a batch buffer as fatal, calling exit(1).

As it is currently Mesa can gracefully handle a failure to write to
OACONTROL if the command parser is disabled, but if we were to remove
OACONTROL from the parser's whitelist then the returned EINVAL would
break Mesa applications as they attempt an OACONTROL write.

Signed-off-by: Robert Bragg <robert at sixbynine.org>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
index cfe3e7a..71e778b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/i915/i915_cmd_parser.c
@@ -1261,7 +1261,7 @@ int intel_engine_cmd_parser(struct intel_engine_cs *engine,
 
 		if (!check_cmd(engine, desc, cmd, length, is_master,
 			       &oacontrol_set)) {
-			ret = -EINVAL;
+			ret = -EACCES;
 			break;
 		}
 
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2.9.2