Re: [PATCH v2] drm/format-helper: Only advertise supported formats for conversion

[Hector Martin]

On 01/11/2022 01.15, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 27, 2022 at 8:57 AM Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> drm_fb_build_fourcc_list() currently returns all emulated formats
>> unconditionally as long as the native format is among them, even though
>> not all combinations have conversion helpers. Although the list is
>> arguably provided to userspace in precedence order, userspace can pick
>> something out-of-order (and thus break when it shouldn't), or simply
>> only support a format that is unsupported (and thus think it can work,
>> which results in the appearance of a hang as FB blits fail later on,
>> instead of the initialization error you'd expect in this case).
>>
>> Add checks to filter the list of emulated formats to only those
>> supported for conversion to the native format. This presumes that there
>> is a single native format (only the first is checked, if there are
>> multiple). Refactoring this API to drop the native list or support it
>> properly (by returning the appropriate emulated->native mapping table)
>> is left for a future patch.
>>
>> The simpledrm driver is left as-is with a full table of emulated
>> formats. This keeps all currently working conversions available and
>> drops all the broken ones (i.e. this a strict bugfix patch, adding no
>> new supported formats nor removing any actually working ones). In order
>> to avoid proliferation of emulated formats, future drivers should
>> advertise only XRGB8888 as the sole emulated format (since some
>> userspace assumes its presence).
>>
>> This fixes a real user regression where the ?RGB2101010 support commit
>> started advertising it unconditionally where not supported, and KWin
>> decided to start to use it over the native format and broke, but also
>> the fixes the spurious RGB565/RGB888 formats which have been wrongly
>> unconditionally advertised since the dawn of simpledrm.
>>
>> Fixes: 6ea966fca084 ("drm/simpledrm: Add [AX]RGB210101
> 
> 
>> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Signed-off-by: Hector Martin <marcan@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> There is a CC for stable on here, but this patch does not apply in any
> way on 6.0 or older kernels as the fourcc bits and considerable churn
> came in with the 6.1 merge window.  You don't happen to have a
> backport of this to 6.0 do you?

v1 is probably closer to such a backport, and I offered to figure it out
on Matrix but I heard you're already working on it ;)

- Hector