[PATCH] drm: Fix uabi regression by allowing garbage mode->type from userspace

Daniel Stone daniel at fooishbar.org
Fri Mar 23 11:05:23 UTC 2018


On 21 March 2018 at 21:12, Ville Syrjala <ville.syrjala at linux.intel.com> wrote:
> Apparently xf86-video-vmware leaves the mode->type uninitialized
> when feeding the mode to the kernel. Thus we have no choice but
> to accept the garbage in. We'll just ignore any of the bits we
> don't want. The mode type is just a hint anyway, and more
> useful for the kernel->userspace direction.

Reviewed-by: Daniel Stone <daniels at collabora.com>


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