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Stephane Marchesin wrote:

> Also, with the current log design for the memory manager, it is possible
> for a rogue process to make the log wrap and not call the
> force_log_update ioctl, thus being able to create some kind of race
> condition where the drm believes it still owns the memory but another
> process has allocated it.

The log design presents numerous opportunities for rogue processes to do
bad things.  At some level, that's inherent in the nature of direct
rendering.  If you don't trust the processes, don't enable direct rendering.
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