This should be harmless. Vmware will, due to old infrastructure reasons, be using a privileged control client to supply GUI layout information rather than obtaining it from the device. That control client will be needing access to DRM version information.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom thellstrom@vmware.com Reviewed-by: Brian Paul brianp@vmware.com Reviewed-by: Sinclair Yeh syeh@vmware.com --- drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c index 9a860ca..d93e737 100644 --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_ioctl.c @@ -520,7 +520,8 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(drm_ioctl_permit);
/** Ioctl table */ static const struct drm_ioctl_desc drm_ioctls[] = { - DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_VERSION, drm_version, DRM_UNLOCKED|DRM_RENDER_ALLOW), + DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_VERSION, drm_version, + DRM_UNLOCKED|DRM_RENDER_ALLOW|DRM_CONTROL_ALLOW), DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_GET_UNIQUE, drm_getunique, 0), DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_GET_MAGIC, drm_getmagic, 0), DRM_IOCTL_DEF(DRM_IOCTL_IRQ_BUSID, drm_irq_by_busid, DRM_MASTER|DRM_ROOT_ONLY),