[PATCH] drm/gem: Check for valid formats

[Thomas Zimmermann]

Hi

Am 05.01.23 um 19:22 schrieb Daniel Vetter:
> On Thu, 5 Jan 2023 at 18:48, Maíra Canal <mcanal at igalia.com> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/5/23 12:26, Daniel Vetter wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jan 03, 2023 at 09:53:23AM -0300, Maíra Canal wrote:
>>>> Currently, drm_gem_fb_create() doesn't check if the pixel format is
>>>> supported, which can lead to the acceptance of invalid pixel formats
>>>> e.g. the acceptance of invalid modifiers. Therefore, add a check for
>>>> valid formats on drm_gem_fb_create().
>>>>
>>>> Moreover, note that this check is only valid for atomic drivers,
>>>> because, for non-atomic drivers, checking drm_any_plane_has_format() is
>>>> not possible since the format list for the primary plane is fake, and
>>>> we'd therefor reject valid formats.
>>>>
>>>> Suggested-by: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann at suse.de>
>>>> Signed-off-by: Maíra Canal <mcanal at igalia.com>
>>>
>>> Acked-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter at ffwll.ch>
>>>
>>> I think to really make sure we have consensus it'd be good to extend this
>>> to a series which removes all the callers to drm_any_plane_has_format()
>>> from the various drivers, and then unexports that helper. That way your
>>> series here will have more eyes on it :-)
>>
>> I took a look at the callers to drm_any_plane_has_format() and there are only
>> 3 callers (amdgpu, i915 and vmwgfx). They all use drm_any_plane_has_format()
>> before calling drm_framebuffer_init(). So, I'm not sure I could remove
>> drm_any_plane_has_format() from those drivers. Maybe adding this same check
>> to drm_gem_fb_init() and refactor the drivers to make them use drm_gem_fb_init(),
>> but I guess this would be part of a different series.
> 
> Well vmwgfx still not yet using gem afaik, so that doesn't work.

There was a patchset that converted vmwgfx to GEM IIRC. It even uses 
generic fbdev emulation now, for which GEM is a hard requirement.

Best regards
Thomas

> 
> But why can't we move the modifier check int drm_framebuffer_init()?
> That's kinda where it probably should be anyway, there's nothing gem
> bo specific in the code you're adding.
> -Daniel

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Thomas Zimmermann
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