On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 07:22:44PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote: > Hi all, > > This series relaxes some permission handling we have in core. > > The first patch, swaps the DRM_ROOT_ONLY to DRM_MASTER on DROP_MASTER > ioctls. Thus any application can drop privileges just after SET_MASTER > and not worry about elevating them, solely for DROP_MASTER. > > The last commit, admittedly works around userspace bugs. Although it's > far better than the "run as root" approach that people have been using. > > It has the extra side effect of allowing some userspace (but not all) > to use vgem without any modifications ;-) > > Would be great if this series is checked through the Intel GFX trybot > but I'm not sure how to do that. Just cc intel-gfx@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. -Daniel > > Any comments, review or general ack's are appreciated. > > Thanks > Emil > > Emil Velikov (3): > drm: change DROP_MASTER permissions to allow DRM_MASTER > drm: annotate drm_core_check_feature() dev arg. as const > drm: allow render capable master with DRM_AUTH ioctls > > drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 10 +++++++--- > include/drm/drm_drv.h | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) > > -- > 2.19.2 > > _______________________________________________ > dri-devel mailing list > dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel -- Daniel Vetter Software Engineer, Intel Corporation http://blog.ffwll.ch _______________________________________________ dri-devel mailing list dri-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel
