On 2018-08-23 2:52 p.m., Emil Velikov wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2018 at 11:38, Michel Dänzer <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On 2018-08-23 12:04 p.m., Emil Velikov wrote:
>>> From: Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Earlier commit reworked our sysfs handling to use realpath.
>>> Sadly that backfired since the Firefox sandboxing mechanism rejects
>>> that. Despite the files/folders being in the allowed list, of the
>>> sandboxing mechanism.
>>
>> From the Firefox bug report, the problem was stat on the top-level /sys
>> directory.
>>
> That's the part I didn't quite get. I don't see anything in libdrm
> that would do that.
> We do have fstat(open("/dev/dri/foo"), stat("/dev/dri/foo").
> 
> I guess the C runtime (compiler?) might be doing that one?
> Like the realpath call being translated to a series of stat() calls.

Yeah, probably something like that.


>>> Oddly enough, the Chromium sandboxing doesn't complain about any of
>>> this.
>>>
>>> Since there are no Firefox releases with the fix, add a temporary
>>> solution which falls back to the original handling.
>>>
>>> Sadly, this won't work for virgl.
>>>
>>> Bugzilla: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=107516
>>> Cc: Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Mike <[email protected]>
>>> Fixes: a02900133b3 ("xf86drm: introduce a get_real_pci_path() helper")
>>> Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>
>> Tested-by: Michel Dänzer <[email protected]>

These are now also valid for v2, thanks again!


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Earthling Michel Dänzer               |               http://www.amd.com
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