On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 03:50:35PM +0000, Simon Ser wrote:
> If a CRTC is missing a legacy primary plane pointer, a lot of things
> will be broken for user-space: fbdev stops working and the entire legacy
> uAPI stops working.
>
> Require all drivers to populate drm_crtc.primary to prevent these
> issues. Warn if it's NULL.
>
> Signed-off-by: Simon Ser <contact@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Daniel Vetter <daniel@xxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Pekka Paalanen <ppaalanen@xxxxxxxxx>
For context we even kinda guarantee that xrgb8888 is available, with
in-kernel conversion, because just too much of the simplistic userspace
falls over otherwise. If we don't have a primary plane then kms is
practically useless I think :-)
Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c | 3 +++
> drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
> index 2c73a60e8765..fbe680035129 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_mode_config.c
> @@ -639,6 +639,9 @@ void drm_mode_config_validate(struct drm_device *dev)
> }
>
> drm_for_each_crtc(crtc, dev) {
> + WARN(!crtc->primary, "Missing primary plane on [CRTC:%d:%s]\n",
> + crtc->base.id, crtc->name);
> +
> if (crtc->primary) {
> WARN(!(crtc->primary->possible_crtcs & BIT(crtc->index)),
> "Bogus primary plane possible_crtcs: [PLANE:%d:%s] must be compatible with [CRTC:%d:%s]\n",
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> index 5d33ca9f0032..49b0a8b9ac02 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_plane.c
> @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@
> * Legacy uAPI doesn't expose the primary and cursor planes directly. DRM core
> * relies on the driver to set the primary and optionally the cursor plane used
> * for legacy IOCTLs. This is done by calling drm_crtc_init_with_planes(). All
> - * drivers should provide one primary plane per CRTC to avoid surprising legacy
> + * drivers must provide one primary plane per CRTC to avoid surprising legacy
> * userspace too much.
> */
>
> --
> 2.29.2
>
>
--
Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
http://blog.ffwll.ch
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