Re: [PATCH 1/3] drm: change DROP_MASTER permissions to allow DRM_MASTER

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On Wed, Dec 19, 2018 at 07:22:45PM +0000, Emil Velikov wrote:
> From: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Currently only DRM_ROOT_ONLY is allowed to call the ioctl.
> 
> Change that to DRM_MASTER, which means that only a process that is the
> current DRM master can drop it. Which makes sense, the process should
> be able to opt-out without any specific requirements.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.velikov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

I guess this makes sense, but then you already need someone else to do the
setmaster for you if you want to run as non-root and be able to switch
between compositors. So no idea where this will be useful.

Either way: New uapi -> needs the userspace patches to exist.
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
> index 94bd872d56c4..2221c8857fb0 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c
> @@ -578,7 +578,7 @@ static const struct drm_ioctl_desc drm_ioctls[] = {
>  	DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_GET_SAREA_CTX, drm_legacy_getsareactx, DRM_AUTH),
>  
>  	DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_SET_MASTER, drm_setmaster_ioctl, DRM_UNLOCKED|DRM_ROOT_ONLY),
> -	DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_DROP_MASTER, drm_dropmaster_ioctl, DRM_UNLOCKED|DRM_ROOT_ONLY),
> +	DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_DROP_MASTER, drm_dropmaster_ioctl, DRM_UNLOCKED|DRM_MASTER),
>  
>  	DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_ADD_CTX, drm_legacy_addctx, DRM_AUTH|DRM_ROOT_ONLY),
>  	DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_RM_CTX, drm_legacy_rmctx, DRM_AUTH|DRM_MASTER|DRM_ROOT_ONLY),
> -- 
> 2.19.2
> 
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Daniel Vetter
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