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`hot_x`/`hot_y` read (0, 0) in two situations that mean opposite things: the
plane exposes no HOTSPOT_X/HOTSPOT_Y (every bare-metal driver), or it exposes
them and the driver's answer is the image's top-left corner. cursor.c knew which
one it was -- get_property_value() returns found/not-found -- and discarded the
answer, leaving a consumer with only the coordinates, so the test it reaches for
is `hot_x != 0 || hot_y != 0`. That is wrong in both directions: it overrides a
real (0, 0) measurement with a guess from the bitmap, and on a driver without the
properties it would trust a hotspot nobody published.
New entry point, so the public struct does not grow and an already-built consumer
is unaffected:
int drmtap_cursor_hotspot_valid(const drmtap_cursor_info *cursor, int *valid);
0 with *valid set, -EINVAL on a null argument, -ENOTSUP when the sample carries
no such answer. -ENOTSUP is deliberately not foldable into *valid: "nobody said"
is not "it was a guess". The bit rides in the cursor's `_priv` slot, which for a
cursor holds no allocation, so nothing has to free it; drmtap_cursor_release()
clears it, or a reused struct could answer for the previous sample. Both Rust
layers carry it as Cursor::hotspot_from_driver() -> Option<bool>.
The helper had the same bug: its get_prop_val() also returned 0 for an absent
property, so an unprivileged consumer had the identical ambiguity. It now reports
found separately and the answer travels in the reply. A hotspot counts as
measured only when BOTH properties were read (wire_hot_measured(), shared by both
ends so they cannot disagree): a plane exposing one of the pair would otherwise
contribute one real coordinate beside an invented zero, wrong on a single axis
and silent about it.
The protocol version did NOT move, and that was a decision the bench made. The
first version of this change added the field to the cursor reply and bumped
HELPER_PROTO_VERSION. The reply carries no header, so a library expecting the
longer struct from a helper sending the shorter one would read the first pixels
as metadata; the version gate does prevent that, but it gates EVERY command, so
an older helper then also refuses CMD_GRAB and a host with a stale drmtap-helper
in any of the six search paths loses all unprivileged capture in exchange for one
bit of cursor metadata. Measured, not imagined: this box had a July helper in
/usr/local/bin and the capture integration test went red. So the extension is a
new command, CMD_GET_CURSOR2, whose reply embeds the frozen one at offset 0
(pinned by a test). A helper that does not know the type rejects it at the
existing gate and closes the channel; the client latches that once per context,
respawns and falls back to CMD_GET_CURSOR, keeping capture and giving up only the
provenance. The latch is taken only if the extended command has never succeeded
on that context, so a crashed helper is not mistaken for an old one.
Both cursor reply layouts now live in wire.h and are used by both ends. They used
to be declared twice, in drmtap_internal.h and as the helper's own struct
cursor_metadata, with a comment asking that the two be kept identical by hand.
Measured in all three states rather than argued:
i915, direct, root visible, hot=(0,0), valid=0 (no such properties,
agrees with modetest)
virtio-gpu, direct, root visible, hot=(6,0), valid=1 HOTSPOT_Y is a zero
that WAS published,
and reads present
July helper, unprivileged visible, capture works, the fallback line in
-ENOTSUP the log, Rust: None
Every new guard was verified by mutation: dropping the ANSWERED bit, turning the
completeness rule into an either-is-enough, removing the release clear, rejecting
CMD_GET_CURSOR2 at the gate, and moving the extension ahead of the frozen block
each make a test fail, and each was restored byte-for-byte.
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WalkthroughThe change adds cursor hotspot provenance to C and Rust APIs, extends the helper protocol with ChangesCursor hotspot provenance
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Client->>PrivilegeHelper: Request cursor metadata
PrivilegeHelper->>Helper: Send CMD_GET_CURSOR2
Helper-->>PrivilegeHelper: Return helper_cursor_wire2_t
PrivilegeHelper-->>Client: Return cursor and provenance
Helper-->>PrivilegeHelper: Reject unknown command
PrivilegeHelper->>Helper: Respawn and send CMD_GET_CURSOR
Helper-->>PrivilegeHelper: Return legacy cursor reply
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Overall, the design looks good. I like the decision to keep the public struct ABI unchanged, expose the provenance through a new accessor, and extend the helper protocol with I found one correctness issue that I think should be fixed before merging. [P2] Do not permanently downgrade after the first
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CodeRabbit on the PR, and it is right: recv_all() cannot tell an unknown command
type from a helper that died, so latching on the FIRST failed extended reply
treats a compatible helper that crashed before answering exactly like an old
binary. The latch survives the respawn and the context outlives a session, so one
transient death would silently cost the hotspot provenance for days.
The channel is now replaced and the EXTENDED command tried once more; only a
second failure on a freshly spawned helper is taken as evidence of an old binary.
Cost in the genuinely-old case is one extra respawn, once per context.
Staged rather than reasoned about, since the difference is invisible to the unit
tests. A wrapper helper that consumes the command frame and then exits, once,
before exec'ing a real CMD_GET_CURSOR2-capable helper -- dying BEFORE the frame
lands would be caught by the pre-existing send-failure respawn instead, which is
not the case under test:
with this commit 2 spawns, the retry line in the log, extended reply,
drmtap_cursor_hotspot_valid() -> 0 (answered)
retry mutated away 2 spawns, latched on the first failure, legacy reply,
drmtap_cursor_hotspot_valid() -> -ENOTSUP
Same helper, same cursor, only the guard changed. (The bench needs the built
helper to carry cap_sys_admin as a file capability, or it refuses to start at all
for lack of privileges to drop; the capped copy was removed afterwards.)
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Three gaps left by the 0.5.6 work, all of them in documentation rather than code: - The feature table's cursor row said which version the para-virtualized cursor plane needs and nothing about the provenance accessor. It now names `drmtap_cursor_hotspot_valid()` with the version, and the three states it was verified in. - The WRAPPER crate's README - the one crates.io serves for `libdrmtap`, and the file a previous audit skipped while correcting every other doc - pointed a reader with a zero hotspot at `Cursor::hot_x` alone. It now names `Cursor::hotspot_from_driver()` and says what each of `Some(true)`, `Some(false)` and `None` means. - The CHANGELOG entry still carried a sentence the retry fix invalidated: that the latch "is only taken if the extended command has never succeeded on that context, so a crashed helper is not mistaken for an old one". That guard does nothing for a crash during the initial probe, which is precisely what was fixed; the sentence is replaced and the fix documented, with its bench. Version audit while here, since a stale number in a doc is its own bug: every other version string in the docs is a "since X" or "fixed in X" statement about when something landed (0.4.4 research headers, 0.4.11/0.4.12/0.4.14 in SECURITY.md, 0.5.3 in the research notes, 0.5.4 for the cursor-plane cap), all correct as history and left alone. The wrapper README's dependency snippet is a `"0.5"` range, which needs no edit. The crates.io badge is dynamic. The CHANGELOG entry carries the actual release date.
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…ast one" Raised by CodeRabbit on #59, correctly, and it landed 40 seconds before that PR was merged, so 0.5.6 shipped with it. Two imprecisions in the one file crates.io serves for the `libdrmtap` crate: - `Some(false)` was described as "the properties are absent", which omits the partial case. `wire_hot_measured()` requires BOTH, so a plane exposing one of the pair also answers `Some(false)`. The C header and the Rust method doc already said "at least one was absent"; only this README did not. - "see `Cursor::hot_x` for how to recover it" reads as though the field recovers a hotspot. Its DOCUMENTATION gives the two recovery routes; the field is just a coordinate. It now says so, and states that `hot_x`/`hot_y` are the driver's coordinates only under `Some(true)`. A published version's README is immutable on crates.io, so the corrected text reaches crates.io with the next release; this fixes what GitHub serves now and what that release will carry. Not worth a 0.5.7 of its own.
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merged, and your P2 was already fixed before the merge. the fix is it is staged rather than reasoned about, since the difference is invisible to the unit same helper, same cursor, only the guard changed. 0.5.6 is out: tag the one thing i cannot do myselfrustdesk pins the mirror, not this repo: that sha is 0.5.4, and if you sync that fork, the sha lands identical, since it is a fork of this repo: the first is the release plus one README correction a bot caught just after the merge, no then the rustdesk side is three lines: happy to open the sync PR from |
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Answers rustdesk/rustdesk#16242 (review thread
r4025619551), where the ask was anAPI that reports hotspot validity separately from the coordinates, valid only when
both properties were read, with
drmtap_get_cursor()and the struct layout leftcompatible, the symbol exported so it can be resolved at runtime, and an explicit
unsupported error where the helper cannot report it.
The bug
hot_x/hot_yread(0, 0)in two situations that mean opposite things: the planeexposes no
HOTSPOT_X/HOTSPOT_Y(every bare-metal driver), or it exposes them andthe driver's answer is the image's top-left corner.
cursor.cknew which -get_property_value()returns found/not-found - and discarded it, so a consumer hasonly the coordinates and reaches for
hot_x != 0 || hot_y != 0. That test is wrong inboth directions: it overrides a real
(0, 0)with a guess from the bitmap, and on adriver without the properties it would trust a hotspot nobody published.
The privileged helper had the same bug independently: its
get_prop_val()alsoreturns
0for an absent property, so fixing only the library would have left anunprivileged consumer with the identical ambiguity.
The API
0with*validset,-EINVALon a null argument,-ENOTSUPwhen the sample carriesno such answer.
-ENOTSUPis deliberately not foldable into*valid: "nobody said" isnot "it was a guess". The public struct does not grow - the bit rides in the cursor's
_privslot, which for a cursor holds no allocation, so nothing has to free it, anddrmtap_cursor_release()clears it or a reused struct could answer for the previoussample. Both Rust layers carry it as
Cursor::hotspot_from_driver() -> Option<bool>.Measured only when both properties were read (
wire_hot_measured(), shared by thelibrary and the helper so the two cannot disagree): a plane exposing one of the pair
would otherwise contribute one real coordinate beside an invented zero - wrong on a
single axis, and silent about it.
Why the protocol version did not move
The first version of this change added the field to the cursor reply and bumped
HELPER_PROTO_VERSION. The reply carries no header, so a library expecting the longerstruct from a helper that sends the shorter one would read the first pixels as
metadata; the version gate prevents that, but it gates every command, so an older
helper then also refuses
CMD_GRAB- and a host with a staledrmtap-helperin any ofthe six search paths loses all unprivileged capture in exchange for one bit of cursor
metadata.
That is not hypothetical. This development box had a July helper in
/usr/local/binand the capture integration test went red, which is how the decision got made.
So the extension is a new command,
CMD_GET_CURSOR2, whose reply embeds the frozen oneat offset 0 (pinned by a test). A helper that does not know the type rejects it at the
existing gate and closes the channel; the client latches that once per context,
respawns, and falls back to
CMD_GET_CURSOR- capture keeps working and only theprovenance is given up, reported as
-ENOTSUP. The latch is taken only if the extendedcommand has never succeeded on that context, so a crashed helper is not mistaken for an
old one.
Both reply layouts now live in
wire.hand are used by both ends. They used to bedeclared twice -
drmtap_internal.hand the helper's ownstruct cursor_metadata-with a comment asking that the two be kept identical by hand.
Measured, in all three states
hot=(0,0),valid=0- no such properties, agrees withmodetesthot=(6,0),valid=1-HOTSPOT_Yis a zero that was published and reads present, which is the core of the fix-ENOTSUP, RustNone, fallback line in the logThe one state no hardware here can produce is a driver publishing
(0, 0)on both axes;that case is pinned by a unit test instead, and the test file says so.
Gates
Every new guard verified by mutation - dropping the
ANSWEREDbit, turning thecompleteness rule into either-is-enough, removing the release clear, rejecting
CMD_GET_CURSOR2at the gate, and moving the extension ahead of the frozen block eachmake a test fail - and each restored byte-for-byte afterwards.
Locally green before pushing: 12/12 meson tests (the integration ones included, against
that old helper), ASan+UBSan with
-Dwerror=true,cppcheckwith the CI flag set,tools/verify-no-helper-build.sh,tools/sync-crate.sh --check,tools/check-version.sh, and the Rust workspace build and tests.