drm/vmwgfx: Allow dropped masters render-node like access on legacy nodes v2
Applications like gnome-shell may try to render after dropping master
privileges. Since the driver should now be safe against this scenario,
allow those applications to use their legacy node like a render node.
v2: Add missing return statement.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com>
Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@vmware.com>
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
index 03854d6..e13b20b 100644
--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_drv.c
@@ -1052,10 +1052,15 @@
}
/*
- * Check if we were previously master, but now dropped.
+ * Check if we were previously master, but now dropped. In that
+ * case, allow at least render node functionality.
*/
if (vmw_fp->locked_master) {
mutex_unlock(&dev->master_mutex);
+
+ if (flags & DRM_RENDER_ALLOW)
+ return NULL;
+
DRM_ERROR("Dropped master trying to access ioctl that "
"requires authentication.\n");
return ERR_PTR(-EACCES);