The function's behaviour was changed in 90844f0004, without changing
its signature, causing people to keep using it the old way without
realising they were now leaking memory.
Rob Clark also noticed it was also allocating GFP_KERNEL memory in
atomic contexts, breaking them.
Instead of having to allocate GFP_ATOMIC memory and fixing the callers
to make them cleanup the memory afterwards, let's change the function's
signature by having the caller take care of the memory and passing it to
the function.
The new parameter is a single-field struct in order to enforce the size
of its buffer and help callers to correctly manage their memory.
Fixes: 90844f0004 ("drm: make drm_get_format_name thread-safe")
Cc: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Cc: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Christian König <christian.koenig@amd.com>
Acked-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Sinclair Yeh <syeh@vmware.com> (vmwgfx)
Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com>
Suggested-by: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20161112011309.9799-1-eric@engestrom.ch
The format helpers have historically treated unsupported formats as part
of the default case, returning values that are likely wrong. We can't
change this behaviour now without risking breaking drivers in difficult
to detect ways, but we can WARN on unsupported formats to catch faulty
callers.
The only exception is the framebuffer_check() function that calls
drm_format_info() to validate the format passed from userspace. This is
a valid use case that shouldn't generate a warning.
Signed-off-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
Reviewed-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@ti.com>
Signed-off-by: Archit Taneja <architt@codeaurora.org>
Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/1476744081-24485-5-git-send-email-laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com
Signed-off-by: Eric Engestrom <eric@engestrom.ch>
[danvet: Clarify that the returned pointer must be freed with
kfree().]
Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch>
