This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

    drm/display: Don't block HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA on unknown EOTF

to the 6.1-stable tree which can be found at:
    
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
     drm-display-don-t-block-hdr_output_metadata-on-unknown-eotf.patch
and it can be found in the queue-6.1 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.


>From e5eef23e267c72521d81f23f7f82d1f523d4a253 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Harry Wentland <[email protected]>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2023 11:24:08 -0500
Subject: drm/display: Don't block HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA on unknown EOTF
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From: Harry Wentland <[email protected]>

commit e5eef23e267c72521d81f23f7f82d1f523d4a253 upstream.

The EDID of an HDR display defines EOTFs that are supported
by the display and can be set in the HDR metadata infoframe.
Userspace is expected to read the EDID and set an appropriate
HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA.

In drm_parse_hdr_metadata_block the kernel reads the supported
EOTFs from the EDID and stores them in the
drm_connector->hdr_sink_metadata. While doing so it also
filters the EOTFs to the EOTFs the kernel knows about.
When an HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA is set it then checks to
make sure the EOTF is a supported EOTF. In cases where
the kernel doesn't know about a new EOTF this check will
fail, even if the EDID advertises support.

Since it is expected that userspace reads the EDID to understand
what the display supports it doesn't make sense for DRM to block
an HDR_OUTPUT_METADATA if it contains an EOTF the kernel doesn't
understand.

This comes with the added benefit of future-proofing metadata
support. If the spec defines a new EOTF there is no need to
update DRM and an compositor can immediately make use of it.

Bug: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/wayland/weston/-/issues/609

v2: Distinguish EOTFs defind in kernel and ones defined
    in EDID in the commit description (Pekka)

v3: Rebase; drm_hdmi_infoframe_set_hdr_metadata moved
    to drm_hdmi_helper.c

Signed-off-by: Harry Wentland <[email protected]>
Cc: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>
Cc: Sebastian Wick <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: Uma Shankar <[email protected]>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <[email protected]>
Cc: Joshua Ashton <[email protected]>
Cc: Jani Nikula <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Cc: [email protected]
Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <[email protected]>
Reviewed-By: Joshua Ashton <[email protected]>
Link: 
https://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
Cc: [email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
 drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_hdmi_helper.c |    6 ++----
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

--- a/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_hdmi_helper.c
+++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/display/drm_hdmi_helper.c
@@ -44,10 +44,8 @@ int drm_hdmi_infoframe_set_hdr_metadata(
 
        /* Sink EOTF is Bit map while infoframe is absolute values */
        if (!is_eotf_supported(hdr_metadata->hdmi_metadata_type1.eotf,
-           connector->hdr_sink_metadata.hdmi_type1.eotf)) {
-               DRM_DEBUG_KMS("EOTF Not Supported\n");
-               return -EINVAL;
-       }
+           connector->hdr_sink_metadata.hdmi_type1.eotf))
+               DRM_DEBUG_KMS("Unknown EOTF %d\n", 
hdr_metadata->hdmi_metadata_type1.eotf);
 
        err = hdmi_drm_infoframe_init(frame);
        if (err < 0)


Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-6.1/drm-connector-print-max_requested_bpc-in-state-debugfs.patch
queue-6.1/drm-display-don-t-block-hdr_output_metadata-on-unknown-eotf.patch

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