Re: [PATCH v4 2/5] drm/nouveau: Fix nv50_mstc->best_encoder()

From: Daniel Vetter
Date: Fri Oct 05 2018 - 03:14:47 EST


On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 08:29:51PM -0400, Lyude Paul wrote:
> As mentioned in the previous commit, we currently prevent new modesets
> on recently-removed MST connectors by returning no encoder from our
> ->best_encoder() callback once the MST port has disappeared. This is
> wrong however, because it prevents legacy modesetting users from being
> able to disable CRTCs on MST connectors after the connector's respective
> topology has disappeared.
>
> So, fix this by instead by just always returning a valid encoder.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Changes since v2:
> - Remove usage of atomic MST helper for now, since that got replaced
> with a much simpler solution
>
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@xxxxxxxx>

> ---
> drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c | 14 ++++----------
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c
> index 5691dfa1db6f..63a23a80f279 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/nouveau/dispnv50/disp.c
> @@ -843,22 +843,16 @@ nv50_mstc_atomic_best_encoder(struct drm_connector *connector,
> {
> struct nv50_head *head = nv50_head(connector_state->crtc);
> struct nv50_mstc *mstc = nv50_mstc(connector);
> - if (mstc->port) {
> - struct nv50_mstm *mstm = mstc->mstm;
> - return &mstm->msto[head->base.index]->encoder;
> - }
> - return NULL;
> +
> + return &mstc->mstm->msto[head->base.index]->encoder;
> }
>
> static struct drm_encoder *
> nv50_mstc_best_encoder(struct drm_connector *connector)
> {
> struct nv50_mstc *mstc = nv50_mstc(connector);
> - if (mstc->port) {
> - struct nv50_mstm *mstm = mstc->mstm;
> - return &mstm->msto[0]->encoder;
> - }
> - return NULL;
> +
> + return &mstc->mstm->msto[0]->encoder;
> }
>
> static enum drm_mode_status
> --
> 2.17.1
>

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Daniel Vetter
Software Engineer, Intel Corporation
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