On 2/28/23 18:54, Rob Clark wrote: > From: Rob Clark <robdcl...@chromium.org> > > Add a build option to disable modesetting support. This is useful in > cases where the guest only needs to use the GPU in a headless mode, or > (such as in the CrOS usage) window surfaces are proxied to a host > compositor. > > As the modesetting ioctls are a big surface area for potential security > bugs to be found (it's happened in the past, we should assume it will > again in the future), it makes sense to have a build option to disable > those ioctls in cases where they serve no legitimate purpose. > > v2: Use more if (IS_ENABLED(...)) > v3: Also permit the host to advertise no scanouts > v4: Spiff out commit msg > > Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdcl...@chromium.org> > Reviewed-by: Dmitry Osipenko <dmitry.osipe...@collabora.com> > ---
Gerd, to give you some context on the v4.. we've chatted a bit more on the #dri-devel and concluded that config option is the most robust way of having KMS disabled from a security stand point. We would also want to have a per-driver option (and not global) because there are scenarios of using passthrough GPU + virtio-gpu in a guest, hence we would only want to toggle KMS for a particular driver. -- Best regards, Dmitry
