Thread (183 messages) 183 messages, 7 authors, 2022-01-31

Re: [PATCH 5.10 154/167] Revert "drm/i915: Propagate errors on awaiting already signaled fences"

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Date: 2021-07-28 11:59:41
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:35:46PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
Hi!

According to changelog, this introduces security hole.
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From: Jason Ekstrand <redacted>

commit 3761baae908a7b5012be08d70fa553cc2eb82305 upstream.

This reverts commit 9e31c1fe45d555a948ff66f1f0e3fe1f83ca63f7.  Ever
since that commit, we've been having issues where a hang in one
client
Hmm. Sounds like problem I'm seeing in mainline. So... good to know.
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For backporters: Please note that you _must_ have a backport of
https://lore.kernel.org/dri-devel/20210602164149.391653-2-jason@jlekstrand.net/ (local)
for otherwise backporting just this patch opens up a security bug.
AFAICT we don't have that c9d9fdbc108af8915d3f497bbdf3898bf8f321b8
drm/i915: Revert "drm/i915/gem: Asynchronous cmdparser" in 5.10 tree.

Hmm, and it needs follow up fix:
6e0b6528d783b2b87bd9e1bea97cf4dac87540d7 drm/i915: Correct the docs
for intel_engine_cmd_parser.

(Someone please double check this).
thanks, let me drop this for now.

Jason, you sent me a single patch to backport, should this be 3 patches
instead?

thanks,

greg k-h
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