linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Suppress keypresses from ACPI_VIDEO events

Open Source and information security mailing list archives

Date:   Wed, 10 Oct 2018 15:06:32 -0400
From:   Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@...il.com>
To:     Lyude <lyude@...hat.com>
Cc:     amd-gfx list <amd-gfx@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "for 3.8" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, "Qu, Jim" <Jim.Qu@....com>,
        Maling list - DRI developers 
        <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>,
        "Deucher, Alexander" <alexander.deucher@....com>,
        Rex Zhu <Rex.Zhu@....com>,
        Christian Koenig <christian.koenig@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drm/amdgpu: Suppress keypresses from ACPI_VIDEO events

On Fri, Sep 21, 2018 at 8:44 PM Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> Currently we return NOTIFY_DONE for any event which we don't think is
> ours. However, many laptops will send more then just an ATIF event and
> will also send an ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE event as well. Since we don't
> check for this, we return NOTIFY_DONE which causes a keypress for the
> ACPI event to be propogated to userspace. This is the equivalent of
> someone pressing the display key on a laptop every time there's a
> hotplug event.
>
> So, check for ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE events and suppress keypresses
> from them.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lyude Paul <lyude@...hat.com>
> Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org

Applied.  Thanks!  Sorry for the delay.

Alex

> ---
>  drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> index 353993218f21..f008804f0b97 100644
> --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/amd/amdgpu/amdgpu_acpi.c
> @@ -358,7 +358,9 @@ static int amdgpu_atif_get_sbios_requests(struct amdgpu_atif *atif,
>   *
>   * Checks the acpi event and if it matches an atif event,
>   * handles it.
> - * Returns NOTIFY code
> + *
> + * Returns:
> + * NOTIFY_BAD or NOTIFY_DONE, depending on the event.
>   */
>  static int amdgpu_atif_handler(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>                                struct acpi_bus_event *event)
> @@ -372,11 +374,16 @@ static int amdgpu_atif_handler(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>         if (strcmp(event->device_class, ACPI_VIDEO_CLASS) != 0)
>                 return NOTIFY_DONE;
>
> +       /* Is this actually our event? */
>         if (!atif ||
>             !atif->notification_cfg.enabled ||
> -           event->type != atif->notification_cfg.command_code)
> -               /* Not our event */
> -               return NOTIFY_DONE;
> +           event->type != atif->notification_cfg.command_code) {
> +               /* These events will generate keypresses otherwise */
> +               if (event->type == ACPI_VIDEO_NOTIFY_PROBE)
> +                       return NOTIFY_BAD;
> +               else
> +                       return NOTIFY_DONE;
> +       }
>
>         if (atif->functions.sbios_requests) {
>                 struct atif_sbios_requests req;
> @@ -385,7 +392,7 @@ static int amdgpu_atif_handler(struct amdgpu_device *adev,
>                 count = amdgpu_atif_get_sbios_requests(atif, &req);
>
>                 if (count <= 0)
> -                       return NOTIFY_DONE;
> +                       return NOTIFY_BAD;
>
>                 DRM_DEBUG_DRIVER("ATIF: %d pending SBIOS requests\n", count);
>
> --
> 2.17.1
>
> _______________________________________________
> dri-devel mailing list
> dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org
> https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/dri-devel

lists.openwall.net		lists / announce owl-users owl-dev john-users john-dev passwdqc-users yescrypt popa3d-users / oss-security kernel-hardening musl sabotage tlsify passwords / crypt-dev xvendor / Bugtraq Full-Disclosure linux-kernel linux-netdev linux-ext4 linux-hardening linux-cve-announce PHC
Open Source and information security mailing list archives