Bug 31537

Summary: xserver segfaults in _glXGetDrawable() when firefox goes on some web sites (NULL pointer)
Product: xorg Reporter: Thierry Vignaud <thierry.vignaud>
Component: Server/GeneralAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: critical    
Priority: medium Keywords: patch
Version: 7.4 (2008.09)   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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Description Thierry Vignaud 2010-11-10 19:12:53 UTC
Created attachment 40188 [details]
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My girlfriend used to make Xserver crash when browsing some sites with firefox or chromium.
See attached GDB trace.
Comment 1 Thierry Vignaud 2010-11-10 19:15:36 UTC
Created attachment 40189 [details] [review]
patch fix 

This patch fixes that crash with xserver-1.7.7.
The crash goes away when switching to xserver-1.9
However I think it still makes sense even if the bug is no more triggered.
Who knows if some other app could trigger the same segfault?
Comment 2 Julien Cristau 2010-11-11 01:41:34 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 29184 ***

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