From: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
To: "emil.l.velikov@gmail.com" <emil.l.velikov@gmail.com>
Cc: "kernel@collabora.com" <kernel@collabora.com>,
Linux-graphics-maintainer <Linux-graphics-maintainer@vmware.com>,
"dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org"
<dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/5] drm/vmwgfx: remove custom ioctl io encoding check
Date: Fri, 24 May 2019 13:04:02 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <280025344d8590a4d10edfd9990d26d15a983264.camel@vmware.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190524121410.GB6233@arch-x1c3>
On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 13:14 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> On 2019/05/23, Thomas Hellstrom wrote:
> > Hi, Emil,
> >
> > On Wed, 2019-05-22 at 17:41 +0100, Emil Velikov wrote:
> > > From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@collabora.com>
> > >
> > > Drop the custom ioctl io encoding check - core drm does it for
> > > us.
> >
> > I fail to see where the core does this, or do I miss something?
>
> drm_ioctl() allows for the encoding to be changed and attributes that
> only the
> appropriate size is copied in/out of the kernel.
>
> Technically the function is more relaxed relative to the vmwgfx
> check, yet
> seems perfectly reasonable.
>
> Is there any corner-case that isn't but should be handled in
> drm_ioctl()?
I'd like to turn the question around and ask whether there's a reason
we should relax the vmwgfx test? In the past it has trapped quite a few
user-space errors.
Thanks,
Thomas
>
> -Emil
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-05-24 13:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-05-22 16:41 [PATCH 1/5] vmwgfx: drop empty lastclose stub Emil Velikov
2019-05-22 16:41 ` [PATCH 2/5] drm/vmgfx: kill off unused init_mutex Emil Velikov
2019-05-23 6:48 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-22 16:41 ` [PATCH 3/5] drm/vmwgfx: use core drm to extend/check vmw_execbuf_ioctl Emil Velikov
2019-05-22 19:01 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-22 19:09 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-05-24 6:05 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-24 7:46 ` Daniel Vetter
2019-05-24 10:53 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-24 10:56 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-23 8:52 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-22 16:41 ` [PATCH 4/5] drm/vmwgfx: remove custom ioctl io encoding check Emil Velikov
2019-05-23 6:44 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-24 12:14 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-24 13:04 ` Thomas Hellstrom [this message]
2019-05-24 15:26 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-24 22:39 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-25 8:25 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-27 9:08 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-27 11:34 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-27 12:35 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-27 13:44 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-27 15:27 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-27 15:50 ` Thomas Hellstrom
2019-05-27 16:36 ` Emil Velikov
2019-05-22 16:41 ` [PATCH 5/5] drm: make drm_ioctl_permit() internal Emil Velikov
2019-05-23 6:47 ` [PATCH 1/5] vmwgfx: drop empty lastclose stub Thomas Hellstrom
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