Only check for for relative path on virtio devices. Otherwise it could break driver loading in some circumstances, notably the IceCat sandbox. https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/-/issues/39 Taken from upstream: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/drm/-/commit/57df07572ce45a1b60bae6fb89770388d3abd6dd diff --git a/xf86drm.c b/xf86drm.c --- a/xf86drm.c +++ b/xf86drm.c @@ -3103,15 +3103,18 @@ static int drmParseSubsystemType(int maj, int min) int subsystem_type; snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "/sys/dev/char/%d:%d/device", maj, min); - if (!realpath(path, real_path)) - return -errno; - snprintf(path, sizeof(path), "%s", real_path); subsystem_type = get_subsystem_type(path); + /* Try to get the parent (underlying) device type */ if (subsystem_type == DRM_BUS_VIRTIO) { + /* Assume virtio-pci on error */ + if (!realpath(path, real_path)) + return DRM_BUS_VIRTIO; strncat(path, "/..", PATH_MAX); subsystem_type = get_subsystem_type(path); - } + if (subsystem_type < 0) + return DRM_BUS_VIRTIO; + } return subsystem_type; #elif defined(__OpenBSD__) || defined(__DragonFly__) || defined(__FreeBSD__) return DRM_BUS_PCI; @@ -3920,6 +3923,7 @@ process_device(drmDevicePtr *device, const char *d_name, switch (subsystem_type) { case DRM_BUS_PCI: + case DRM_BUS_VIRTIO: return drmProcessPciDevice(device, node, node_type, maj, min, fetch_deviceinfo, flags); case DRM_BUS_USB: