linux-kernel - Re: Safety of opening up /dev/dma_heap/* to physically present users (udev uaccess tag) ?

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Date: Thu, 16 May 2024 07:00:31 +0000
From: Simon Ser <contact@...rsion.fr>
To: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com>
Cc: Nicolas Dufresne <nicolas.dufresne@...labora.com>, Maxime Ripard <mripard@...hat.com>, Bryan O'Donoghue <bryan.odonoghue@...aro.org>, Dmitry Baryshkov <dmitry.baryshkov@...aro.org>, Hans de Goede <hdegoede@...hat.com>, Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>, Benjamin Gaignard <benjamin.gaignard@...labora.com>, Brian Starkey <Brian.Starkey@....com>, John Stultz <jstultz@...gle.com>, "T.J. Mercier" <tjmercier@...gle.com>, Christian König <christian.koenig@....com>, Lennart Poettering <mzxreary@...inter.de>, Robert Mader <robert.mader@...labora.com>, Sebastien Bacher <sebastien.bacher@...onical.com>, Linux Media Mailing List <linux-media@...r.kernel.org>, "dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org" <dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org>, linaro-mm-sig@...ts.linaro.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Milan Zamazal <mzamazal@...hat.com>, Andrey Konovalov <andrey.konovalov.ynk@...il.com>
Subject: Re: Safety of opening up /dev/dma_heap/* to physically present users (udev uaccess tag) ?

On Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 at 22:42, Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@...asonboard.com> wrote:

> My experience on Arm platforms is that the KMS drivers offer allocation
> for scanout buffers, not render buffers, and mostly using the dumb
> allocator API. If the KMS device can scan out YUV natively, YUV buffer
> allocation should be supported. Am I missing something here ?

Note that dumb buffers are only intended for simple software-rendering
use-cases. Anything more complicated (e.g. involving GPU rendering)
should use another mechanism.