[Intel-gfx] [PATCH 05/13] drm/i915: drop DRM_AUTH from DRM_RENDER_ALLOW ioctls

[Emil Velikov]

On 2019/05/27, Jani Nikula wrote:
> On Mon, 27 May 2019, Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> >
> > The authentication can be circumvented, by design, by using the render
> > node.
> >
> > From the driver POV there is no distinction between primary and render
> > nodes, thus we can drop the token.
> >
> > Note: the outstanding DRM_AUTH instances are:
> >  - legacy DRI1 ioctls, which are already neutered
> >  - modern but deprecated ioctls
> >
> > Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Joonas Lahtinen <joonas.lahtinen at linux.intel.com>
> > Cc: Rodrigo Vivi <rodrigo.vivi at intel.com>
> > Cc: intel-gfx at lists.freedesktop.org
> > Cc: David Airlie <airlied at linux.ie>
> > Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel at ffwll.ch>
> > Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov at collabora.com>
> 
> Please see
> 
> commit b972fffa114b18a120a7bbde105d69a080d24970
> Author: Christian König <ckoenig.leichtzumerken at gmail.com>
> Date:   Wed Apr 17 13:25:24 2019 +0200
> 
>     drm/i915: remove DRM_AUTH from IOCTLs which also have DRM_RENDER_ALLOW
> 
> It's headed to drm-next in [1].
> 
Right my series is based on drm-misc-next, which does not (yet) have
the patch. I'll drop my patch when the equivalent, shows up in
drm-misc-next.

Thanks
Emil