This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled drm: Check for lessee in DROP_MASTER ioctl to the 4.15-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: drm-check-for-lessee-in-drop_master-ioctl.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.15 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 761e05a702f5d537ffcca1ba933f9f0a968aa022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2018 17:51:59 -0800 Subject: drm: Check for lessee in DROP_MASTER ioctl From: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 761e05a702f5d537ffcca1ba933f9f0a968aa022 upstream. Don't let a lessee control what the current DRM master is set to; that's the job of the "real" master. Otherwise, the lessee would disable all access to master operations for the owner and all lessees under it. This matches the same check made in the SET_MASTER ioctl. Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@xxxxxxxxxx> Fixes: 2ed077e467ee ("drm: Add drm_object lease infrastructure [v5]") Cc: <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> # v4.15+ Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx> Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20180119015159.1606-1-keithp@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_auth.c @@ -230,6 +230,12 @@ int drm_dropmaster_ioctl(struct drm_devi if (!dev->master) goto out_unlock; + if (file_priv->master->lessor != NULL) { + DRM_DEBUG_LEASE("Attempt to drop lessee %d as master\n", file_priv->master->lessee_id); + ret = -EINVAL; + goto out_unlock; + } + ret = 0; drm_drop_master(dev, file_priv); out_unlock: Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from keithp@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.15/drm-check-for-lessee-in-drop_master-ioctl.patch