[PATCH] drm/vmwgfx: Work around drm removal of control nodes
Sinclair Yeh
syeh at vmware.com
Tue Feb 21 22:05:26 UTC 2017
Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh at vmware.com>
On Tue, Feb 21, 2017 at 05:42:27PM +0700, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> vmware tools has a daemon that gets layout information from the GUI and
> forwards it to DRM so that the modesetting code can set preferred connector
> locations and modes. This daemon was using control nodes but since control
> nodes were just removed, make it possible for the daemon to use render- or
> primary nodes instead. This is a bit ugly but will allow drm to proceed with
> removal of the mostly unused control-node code and allow vmware to proceed
> with fixing up automatic layout settings for gnome-shell/wayland.
>
> We bump minor to inform user-space about the api change.
>
> Cc: <stable at vger.kernel.org>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom at vmware.com>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c | 11 ++++++++++-
> drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h | 4 ++--
> 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
> index 541a588..d08f269 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
> @@ -199,9 +199,14 @@ static const struct drm_ioctl_desc vmw_ioctls[] = {
> VMW_IOCTL_DEF(VMW_PRESENT_READBACK,
> vmw_present_readback_ioctl,
> DRM_MASTER | DRM_AUTH),
> + /*
> + * The permissions of the below ioctl are overridden in
> + * vmw_generic_ioctl(). We require either
> + * DRM_MASTER or capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN).
> + */
> VMW_IOCTL_DEF(VMW_UPDATE_LAYOUT,
> vmw_kms_update_layout_ioctl,
> - DRM_MASTER | DRM_CONTROL_ALLOW),
> + DRM_RENDER_ALLOW),
> VMW_IOCTL_DEF(VMW_CREATE_SHADER,
> vmw_shader_define_ioctl,
> DRM_AUTH | DRM_RENDER_ALLOW),
> @@ -1123,6 +1128,10 @@ static long vmw_generic_ioctl(struct file *filp, unsigned int cmd,
>
> return (long) vmw_execbuf_ioctl(dev, arg, file_priv,
> _IOC_SIZE(cmd));
> + } else if (nr == DRM_COMMAND_BASE + DRM_VMW_UPDATE_LAYOUT) {
> + if (!drm_is_current_master(file_priv) &&
> + !capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN))
> + return -EACCES;
> }
>
> if (unlikely(ioctl->cmd != cmd))
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
> index 1e59a48..59ff419 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.h
> @@ -41,9 +41,9 @@
> #include <drm/ttm/ttm_module.h>
> #include "vmwgfx_fence.h"
>
> -#define VMWGFX_DRIVER_DATE "20160210"
> +#define VMWGFX_DRIVER_DATE "20170221"
> #define VMWGFX_DRIVER_MAJOR 2
> -#define VMWGFX_DRIVER_MINOR 11
> +#define VMWGFX_DRIVER_MINOR 12
> #define VMWGFX_DRIVER_PATCHLEVEL 0
> #define VMWGFX_FILE_PAGE_OFFSET 0x00100000
> #define VMWGFX_FIFO_STATIC_SIZE (1024*1024)
> --
> 2.9.3
>
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