Re: [PATCH 3/4] fbdev: Add FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START flag

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On Wed, Aug 22, 2018 at 10:54:04AM +0200, Daniel Vetter wrote:
> DRM drivers really, really, really don't want random userspace to
> share buffer behind it's back, bypassing the dma-buf buffer sharing
> machanism. For that reason we've ruthlessly rejected any IOCTL
> exposing the physical address of any graphics buffer.
> 
> Unfortunately fbdev comes with that built-in. We could just set
> smem_start to 0, but that means we'd have to hand-roll our own fb_mmap
> implementation. For good reasons many drivers do that, but
> smem_start/length is still super convenient.
> 
> Hence instead just stop the leak in the ioctl, to keep fb mmap working
> as-is. A second patch will set this flag for all drm drivers.
> 
> Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <b.zolnierkie@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>

Any comments from the fbdev side on this?
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c | 4 ++++
>  include/linux/fb.h               | 7 +++++++
>  2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> index 609438d2465b..549d0f86fcf3 100644
> --- a/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> +++ b/drivers/video/fbdev/core/fbmem.c
> @@ -1116,6 +1116,8 @@ static long do_fb_ioctl(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
>  		if (!lock_fb_info(info))
>  			return -ENODEV;
>  		fix = info->fix;
> +		if (info->flags & FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START)
> +			fix.smem_start = 0;
>  		unlock_fb_info(info);
>  
>  		ret = copy_to_user(argp, &fix, sizeof(fix)) ? -EFAULT : 0;
> @@ -1326,6 +1328,8 @@ static int fb_get_fscreeninfo(struct fb_info *info, unsigned int cmd,
>  	if (!lock_fb_info(info))
>  		return -ENODEV;
>  	fix = info->fix;
> +	if (info->flags & FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START)
> +		fix.smem_start = 0;
>  	unlock_fb_info(info);
>  	return do_fscreeninfo_to_user(&fix, compat_ptr(arg));
>  }
> diff --git a/include/linux/fb.h b/include/linux/fb.h
> index fa8c6f9c9c3a..f42b09ca71f8 100644
> --- a/include/linux/fb.h
> +++ b/include/linux/fb.h
> @@ -456,6 +456,13 @@ struct fb_tile_ops {
>   * and host endianness. Drivers should not use this flag.
>   */
>  #define FBINFO_BE_MATH  0x100000
> +/*
> + * Hide smem_start in the FBIOGET_FSCREENINFO IOCTL. This is used by modern DRM
> + * drivers to stop userspace from trying to share buffers behind the kernel's
> + * back. Instead dma-buf based buffer sharing should be used.
> + */
> +#define FBINFO_HIDE_SMEM_START  0x200000
> +
>  
>  struct fb_info {
>  	atomic_t count;
> -- 
> 2.18.0
> 

-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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