[PATCH v2] drm/vmwgfx: Work around VMW_ALLOC_DMABUF

[Meng Tang]

On 2023/2/24 11:13, Zack Rusin wrote:
> 
> That's correct. That's the way this works. The ioctl is allocating a buffer, there's
> no infinite space for buffers on a system and, given that your app just allocates
> and never frees buffers, at some point the space will run out and the ioctl will
> return a failure.
> 
Do you mean that users without certain privileges can access allocate a 
buffer because it is designed like this? so we don't need to block 
users without certain privileges to VMW_ALLOC_DMABUF success?
> As to the stack trace, I'm not sure what kernel you were testing it on so I don't
> have access to the full log but I can't reproduce it and there was a change fixing
> exactly this (i.e. buffer failed allocation but we were still accessing it) that was
> fixed in in 6.2 in commit 1a6897921f52 ("drm/vmwgfx: Stop accessing buffer objects
> which failed init") the change was backported as well, so you should be able to
> verify on any kernel with it.
> 
> z
> 
Thank you, the kernel version of my environment is lower than 6.2, I 
will verify on my kernel with commit 1a6897921f52 ("drm/vmwgfx: Stop 
accessing buffer objects which failed init").