Re: [PATCH] drm/nouveau: check ioctl command codes better

[Danilo Krummrich]

On 7/22/25 12:52 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2025, at 12:29, Chris Bainbridge wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 21, 2025 at 08:22:48AM -0400, Satadru Pramanik wrote:
> > > Hello all,
> > >
> > > I suspect this commit in 6.16-rc7 has broken acceleration with Mesa's
> > > nouveau drivers on my machine.

Thanks for the report!

Please make sure to keep maintainers in the loop, for some reason I was removed
from the recipient list for this regression report.

> > > glxinfo -B reports that I'm using llvmpipe.
> > >
> > > Reverting this in 6.16-rc7 restores nouveau acceleration, and glxinfo
> > > then reports: "OpenGL renderer string: NVE7"
> >
> > I also bisected an issue to this commit. On my laptop, this commit
> > results in an intermittent desktop crash (Xorg segfault) when changing
> > display scale, which can be more reliably reproduced with:
> >
> > for x in {1..100}; do
> >    xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode 2560x1600 --scale 0.5 --filter nearest
> >    xrandr --output eDP-1 --mode 2560x1600 --scale 1 --filter nearest
> > done
>
> I won't have time to work on fixing my patch before the merge window,
> let's just revert it.

@Arnd: Yes, given the short timeframe I think that's the best. Can you please 
send the revert?