drm: GPF in drm_getcap

[Michel Dänzer]

On 28/11/16 03:55 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:22 PM, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 7:07 PM, Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov at google.com> wrote:
>>> grep "card0" dmesg:
>>> [    5.298617] device: 'card0': device_add
>>> [    5.298946] PM: Adding info for No Bus:card0
>>> [    6.436178] device: 'card0': device_add
>>> [    6.436488] PM: Adding info for No Bus:card0
>>>
>>>
>>> # ls -l /dev/dri/card0
>>> crw-rw---T 1 root video 226, 0 Nov 26 18:05 /dev/dri/card0
>>>
>>> # ls -lt /sys/class/drm/card0/device/
>>> ls: cannot access /sys/class/drm/card0/device/: No such file or directory
>>>
>>> # ls -lt /sys/class/drm/card0/device/driver
>>> ls: cannot access /sys/class/drm/card0/device/driver: No such file or directory
>>
>> Looks like vgem. Something like this should help:
>>
>>     https://gist.github.com/dvdhrm/1bcdf4f3485aa1614a0198a7b90515e2
>>
>> I wonder whether it would be more appropriate to return -ENOTSUPP rather than 0.

Can't see how that would matter FWIW.


> Seems a bit overkill, but can't hurt. This is most likely a
> regression, probably introduced in
> 
> commit f837297ad82480024d3ad08cd84f6670bcafa862
> Author: Michel Dänzer <michel.daenzer at amd.com>
> Date:   Mon Aug 8 16:23:39 2016 +0900
> 
>     drm: Add DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_TARGET_ABSOLUTE/RELATIVE flags v2
> 
> Michel, can you pls take care of this? Either with a minimal fix, or
> by adopting David's patch?

Can't we just use David's patch as-is? If not, I think Dmitry or someone
else would be better equipped than me to extract a minimal fix from it
and test it.


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