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Commit 62d85b3b authored by Ivan Mironov's avatar Ivan Mironov Committed by Daniel Vetter
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drm/fb-helper: Partially bring back workaround for bugs of SDL 1.2

SDL 1.2 sets all fields related to the pixel format to zero in some
cases[1]. Prior to commit db05c481

 ("drm: fb-helper: Reject all
pixel format changing requests"), there was an unintentional workaround
for this that existed for more than a decade. First in device-specific DRM
drivers, then here in drm_fb_helper.c.

Previous code containing this workaround just ignores pixel format fields
from userspace code. Not a good thing either, as this way, driver may
silently use pixel format different from what client actually requested,
and this in turn will lead to displaying garbage on the screen. I think
that returning EINVAL to userspace in this particular case is the right
option, so I decided to left code from problematic commit untouched
instead of just reverting it entirely.

Here is the steps required to reproduce this problem exactly:
	1) Compile fceux[2] with SDL 1.2.15 and without GTK or OpenGL
	   support. SDL should be compiled with fbdev support (which is
	   on by default).
	2) Create /etc/fb.modes with following contents (values seems
	   not used, and just required to trigger problematic code in
	   SDL):

		mode "test"
		    geometry 1 1 1 1 1
		    timings 1 1 1 1 1 1 1
		endmode

	3) Create ~/.fceux/fceux.cfg with following contents:

		SDL.Hotkeys.Quit = 27
		SDL.DoubleBuffering = 1

	4) Ensure that screen resolution is at least 1280x960 (e.g.
	   append "video=Virtual-1:1280x960-32" to the kernel cmdline
	   for qemu/QXL).

	5) Try to run fceux on VT with some ROM file[3]:

		# ./fceux color_test.nes

[1] SDL 1.2.15 source code, src/video/fbcon/SDL_fbvideo.c,
    FB_SetVideoMode()
[2] http://www.fceux.com
[3] Example ROM: https://github.com/bokuweb/rustynes/blob/master/roms/color_test.nes

Reported-by: default avatarsaahriktu <mail@saahriktu.org>
Suggested-by: default avatarsaahriktu <mail@saahriktu.org>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Fixes: db05c481

 ("drm: fb-helper: Reject all pixel format changing requests")
Signed-off-by: default avatarIvan Mironov <mironov.ivan@gmail.com>
[danvet: Delete misleading comment.]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDaniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190108072353.28078-2-mironov.ivan@gmail.com
Link: https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20190108072353.28078-2-mironov.ivan@gmail.com
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