DRM framebuffer removal broken since 13803132

Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com
Wed Mar 16 10:17:22 UTC 2016


Hey,

Op 16-03-16 om 09:34 schreef Thomas Hellstrom:
> Hi!
>
> The commit
>
> From 13803132818cf8084d169617be060fd8e3411a98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at linux.intel.com>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2015 16:40:56 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] drm/core: Preserve the framebuffer after removing it.
>
> badly breaks vmwgfx multimon since the crtcs are no longer turned off at
> framebuffer removal,
> which is part of the user-space contract.
Is this about rmfb or lastclose?

Lastclose is handled by kms fbdev emulation, rmfb behavioral change was intentional, but can be reverted.
> Also isn't this a security issue, since at, for example, Xorg crash, the
> crtcs can be left scanning out from memory
> DRM no longer owns?
>
Not in general, the drivers I've worked with have the framebuffers holding a reference to the underlying
object storage. Else this would be a security issue without the rmfb behavior too.

~Maarten


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