Re: xf86-video-intel hits an assert when using dri and xorg is not suid root

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Hi,

On 06/13/2014 02:53 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:44:44PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On 06/13/2014 02:36 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
>>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:08:06PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> When trying to run the latest xorg + intel drv, with dri3, with Xorg not
>>>> running as root, the followin assert in src/intel_device.c: authorise() :
>>>>
>>>> assert(is_i915_gem(fd));
>>>>
>>>> Triggers, this is caused by the DRM_IOCTL_I915_GETPARAM ioctl in
>>>> is_i915_gem() failing with -EACCESS in this case.
>>>>
>>>> I thought that the use of rendernodes should work as normal user ?
>>>
>>> Hmm, I have
>>>
>>> DRM_IOCTL_DEF_DRV(I915_GETPARAM, i915_getparam, DRM_AUTH|DRM_RENDER_ALLOW),
>>>
>>> What path did find_render_node() choose? Was it right?
>>
>> I don't have USE_RENDERNODE defined in config.h, so find_render_node()
>> is returning NULL, which makes dev->render_node point to dev->master_node,
>> and thus makes intel_get_client_fd open the /dev/dri/card0 node a second
>> time (when using non suid-root xorg the first time it was opened by
>> systemd-logind and the fd was passed from systemd-logind to xf86-video-intel
>> by the server).
>>
>> Do we really want a second open in this case, maybe intel_get_client_fd
>> should detect that render_node == master_node and re-use the master fd
>> in that case ?
> 
> We can't just hand out the contents of X! So let's just move the
> assertion to after we have a suitable fd.
> 
> committ 8322e3e5c6ed19e029f365d869c80388863c424d
> Author: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Date:   Fri Jun 13 13:50:34 2014 +0100
> 
>     intel: Check that the fd points to i915 after authorising
>     
>     The call to GETPARAM requires either a rendernode or authorisation.
>     Therefore we can only assert that the fd is a valid i915 handle after
>     authorise() and not before.
>     
>     Reported-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
>     Signed-off-by: Chris Wilson <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, I can confirm that this fixes things when the server is not
running as root (I now get the gnome-shell hang as I do when the server
is running as root).

Regards,

Hans
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