Re: [PATCH] drm/atomic-helpers: remove legacy_cursor_update hacks

[Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>]

On Thu, Mar 31, 2022 at 05:20:21PM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> The stuff never really worked, and leads to lots of fun because it
> out-of-order frees atomic states. Which upsets KASAN, among other
> things.
> 
> For async updates we now have a more solid solution with the
> ->atomic_async_check and ->atomic_async_commit hooks. Support for that
> for msm and vc4 landed. nouveau and i915 have their own commit
> routines, doing something similar.
> 
> For everyone else it's probably better to remove the use-after-free
> bug, and encourage folks to use the async support instead. The
> affected drivers which register a legacy cursor plane and don't either
> use the new async stuff or their own commit routine are: amdgpu,
> atmel, mediatek, qxl, rockchip, sti, sun4i, tegra, virtio, and vmwgfx.
> 
> Inspired by an amdgpu bug report.
> 
> v2: Drop RFC, I think with amdgpu converted over to use
> atomic_async_check/commit done in
> 
> commit 674e78acae0dfb4beb56132e41cbae5b60f7d662
> Author: Nicholas Kazlauskas <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com>
> Date:   Wed Dec 5 14:59:07 2018 -0500
> 
>     drm/amd/display: Add fast path for cursor plane updates
> 
> we don't have any driver anymore where we have userspace expecting
> solid legacy cursor support _and_ they are using the atomic helpers in
> their fully glory. So we can retire this.
> 
> v3: Paper over msm and i915 regression. The complete_all is the only
> thing missing afaict.
> 
> v4: Fixup i915 fixup ...
> 
> References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199425
> References: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20220221134155.125447-9-maxime@cerno.tech/
> References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199425
> Cc: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
> Tested-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>
> Cc: mikita.lipski@amd.com
> Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
> Cc: harry.wentland@amd.com
> Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
> Cc: "Kazlauskas, Nicholas" <nicholas.kazlauskas@amd.com>
> Cc: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipenko@collabora.com>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com>

Acked-by: Maxime Ripard <maxime@cerno.tech>

Maxime