Short summary of fixes pull:

client:
 - Fix description of module parameter
 
 panthor:
 - Flush writes before mapping buffers
 
 vmwgfx:
 - Improve command validation
 - Improve ref counting
 - Fix cursor-plane support
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Merge tag 'drm-misc-fixes-2025-11-13' of https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/drm/misc/kernel into drm-fixes

Short summary of fixes pull:

client:
- Fix description of module parameter

panthor:
- Flush writes before mapping buffers

vmwgfx:
- Improve command validation
- Improve ref counting
- Fix cursor-plane support

Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>

From: Thomas Zimmermann <tzimmermann@suse.de>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251113132317.GA451885@linux.fritz.box

drivers/gpu/drm/clients/drm_client_setup.c

@@ -13,8 +13,8 @@
 static char drm_client_default[16] = CONFIG_DRM_CLIENT_DEFAULT;
 module_param_string(active, drm_client_default, sizeof(drm_client_default), 0444);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(active,
-		 "Choose which drm client to start, default is"
-		 CONFIG_DRM_CLIENT_DEFAULT "]");
+		 "Choose which drm client to start, default is "
+		 CONFIG_DRM_CLIENT_DEFAULT);
 
 /**
  * drm_client_setup() - Setup in-kernel DRM clients

drivers/gpu/drm/panthor/panthor_gem.c

@@ -288,6 +288,23 @@ panthor_gem_create_with_handle(struct drm_file *file,
 
 	panthor_gem_debugfs_set_usage_flags(bo, 0);
 
+	/* If this is a write-combine mapping, we query the sgt to force a CPU
+	 * cache flush (dma_map_sgtable() is called when the sgt is created).
+	 * This ensures the zero-ing is visible to any uncached mapping created
+	 * by vmap/mmap.
+	 * FIXME: Ideally this should be done when pages are allocated, not at
+	 * BO creation time.
+	 */
+	if (shmem->map_wc) {
+		struct sg_table *sgt;
+
+		sgt = drm_gem_shmem_get_pages_sgt(shmem);
+		if (IS_ERR(sgt)) {
+			ret = PTR_ERR(sgt);
+			goto out_put_gem;
+		}
+	}
+
 	/*
 	 * Allocate an id of idr table where the obj is registered
 	 * and handle has the id what user can see.
@@ -296,6 +313,7 @@ panthor_gem_create_with_handle(struct drm_file *file,
 	if (!ret)
 		*size = bo->base.base.size;
 
+out_put_gem:
 	/* drop reference from allocate - handle holds it now. */
 	drm_gem_object_put(&shmem->base);
 

drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cursor_plane.c

@@ -100,8 +100,10 @@ vmw_cursor_update_type(struct vmw_private *vmw, struct vmw_plane_state *vps)
 	if (vmw->has_mob) {
 		if ((vmw->capabilities2 & SVGA_CAP2_CURSOR_MOB) != 0)
 			return VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_MOB;
+		else
+			return VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_GB_ONLY;
 	}
-
+	drm_warn_once(&vmw->drm, "Unknown Cursor Type!\n");
 	return VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_NONE;
 }
 
@@ -139,6 +141,7 @@ static u32 vmw_cursor_mob_size(enum vmw_cursor_update_type update_type,
 {
 	switch (update_type) {
 	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_LEGACY:
+	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_GB_ONLY:
 	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_NONE:
 		return 0;
 	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_MOB:
@@ -623,6 +626,7 @@ int vmw_cursor_plane_prepare_fb(struct drm_plane *plane,
 		if (!surface || vps->cursor.legacy.id == surface->snooper.id)
 			vps->cursor.update_type = VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_NONE;
 		break;
+	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_GB_ONLY:
 	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_MOB: {
 		bo = vmw_user_object_buffer(&vps->uo);
 		if (bo) {
@@ -737,6 +741,7 @@ void
 vmw_cursor_plane_atomic_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
 			       struct drm_atomic_state *state)
 {
+	struct vmw_bo *bo;
 	struct drm_plane_state *new_state =
 		drm_atomic_get_new_plane_state(state, plane);
 	struct drm_plane_state *old_state =
@@ -762,6 +767,15 @@ vmw_cursor_plane_atomic_update(struct drm_plane *plane,
 	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_MOB:
 		vmw_cursor_update_mob(dev_priv, vps);
 		break;
+	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_GB_ONLY:
+		bo = vmw_user_object_buffer(&vps->uo);
+		if (bo)
+			vmw_send_define_cursor_cmd(dev_priv, bo->map.virtual,
+						   vps->base.crtc_w,
+						   vps->base.crtc_h,
+						   vps->base.hotspot_x,
+						   vps->base.hotspot_y);
+		break;
 	case VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_NONE:
 		/* do nothing */
 		break;

drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_cursor_plane.h

@@ -33,6 +33,7 @@ static const u32 __maybe_unused vmw_cursor_plane_formats[] = {
 enum vmw_cursor_update_type {
 	VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_NONE = 0,
 	VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_LEGACY,
+	VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_GB_ONLY,
 	VMW_CURSOR_UPDATE_MOB,
 };
 

drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_execbuf.c

@@ -3668,6 +3668,11 @@ static int vmw_cmd_check(struct vmw_private *dev_priv,
 
 
 	cmd_id = header->id;
+	if (header->size > SVGA_CMD_MAX_DATASIZE) {
+		VMW_DEBUG_USER("SVGA3D command: %d is too big.\n",
+			       cmd_id + SVGA_3D_CMD_BASE);
+		return -E2BIG;
+	}
 	*size = header->size + sizeof(SVGA3dCmdHeader);
 
 	cmd_id -= SVGA_3D_CMD_BASE;

drivers/gpu/drm/vmwgfx/vmwgfx_page_dirty.c

@@ -32,22 +32,22 @@ enum vmw_bo_dirty_method {
 
 /**
  * struct vmw_bo_dirty - Dirty information for buffer objects
+ * @ref_count: Reference count for this structure. Must be first member!
  * @start: First currently dirty bit
  * @end: Last currently dirty bit + 1
  * @method: The currently used dirty method
  * @change_count: Number of consecutive method change triggers
- * @ref_count: Reference count for this structure
  * @bitmap_size: The size of the bitmap in bits. Typically equal to the
  * nuber of pages in the bo.
  * @bitmap: A bitmap where each bit represents a page. A set bit means a
  * dirty page.
  */
 struct vmw_bo_dirty {
+	struct   kref ref_count;
 	unsigned long start;
 	unsigned long end;
 	enum vmw_bo_dirty_method method;
 	unsigned int change_count;
-	unsigned int ref_count;
 	unsigned long bitmap_size;
 	unsigned long bitmap[];
 };
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@ int vmw_bo_dirty_add(struct vmw_bo *vbo)
 	int ret;
 
 	if (dirty) {
-		dirty->ref_count++;
+		kref_get(&dirty->ref_count);
 		return 0;
 	}
 
@@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ int vmw_bo_dirty_add(struct vmw_bo *vbo)
 	dirty->bitmap_size = num_pages;
 	dirty->start = dirty->bitmap_size;
 	dirty->end = 0;
-	dirty->ref_count = 1;
+	kref_init(&dirty->ref_count);
 	if (num_pages < PAGE_SIZE / sizeof(pte_t)) {
 		dirty->method = VMW_BO_DIRTY_PAGETABLE;
 	} else {
@@ -274,10 +274,8 @@ void vmw_bo_dirty_release(struct vmw_bo *vbo)
 {
 	struct vmw_bo_dirty *dirty = vbo->dirty;
 
-	if (dirty && --dirty->ref_count == 0) {
-		kvfree(dirty);
+	if (dirty && kref_put(&dirty->ref_count, (void *)kvfree))
 		vbo->dirty = NULL;
-	}
 }
 
 /**