Re: [PATCH] drm/etnaviv: only reject timeouts with tv_nsec >= 2 seconds

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Fri, Jan 24, 2020 at 9:56 AM Guido GÃnther <agx@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 10:35:53AM +0000, Russell King - ARM Linux admin wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 11:30:34AM +0100, Guido GÃnther wrote:

> > I think it would probably be better for the kernel to print a
> > warning once when noticing over-large nsec values, suggesting a
> > userspace upgrade is in order, but continue the existing behaviour.
>
> That makes sense to me. This also makes sure we don't break other (non
> mesa using) stuff accidentally. We have
>
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/commit/d817f2c69615cf37b78f484a25b7831ebe9dbe6f
>
> and
>
>   https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/merge_requests/3534
>
> to normalize nsec to [0..999999999] now.
>

I have reverted my patch that adds the range check now, so I can send the rest
of the series for inclusion.

I've played around with ways to add a ratelimited warning message and to
make sure that a malicious application cannot cause a long stall, but haven't
managed to get a version I'm actually happy with.

I'll follow up once the series is merged, and then we can add a better
workaround
later through the drm tree.

      Arnd