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

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On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 5:50 PM Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> 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.
>
> References: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199425
> Cc: mikita.lipski@xxxxxxx
> Cc: Michel Dänzer <michel@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: harry.wentland@xxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxxx>

Any comments on this from amd's side?
-Daniel

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c | 13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> index 130da5195f3b..5a576cdf26dd 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_atomic_helper.c
> @@ -1330,13 +1330,6 @@ drm_atomic_helper_wait_for_vblanks(struct drm_device *dev,
>         int i, ret;
>         unsigned crtc_mask = 0;
>
> -        /*
> -         * Legacy cursor ioctls are completely unsynced, and userspace
> -         * relies on that (by doing tons of cursor updates).
> -         */
> -       if (old_state->legacy_cursor_update)
> -               return;
> -
>         for_each_oldnew_crtc_in_state(old_state, crtc, old_crtc_state, new_crtc_state, i) {
>                 if (!new_crtc_state->active)
>                         continue;
> @@ -1884,12 +1877,6 @@ int drm_atomic_helper_setup_commit(struct drm_atomic_state *state,
>                         continue;
>                 }
>
> -               /* Legacy cursor updates are fully unsynced. */
> -               if (state->legacy_cursor_update) {
> -                       complete_all(&commit->flip_done);
> -                       continue;
> -               }
> -
>                 if (!new_crtc_state->event) {
>                         commit->event = kzalloc(sizeof(*commit->event),
>                                                 GFP_KERNEL);
> --
> 2.18.0.rc2
>


-- 
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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