Bug 3922

Summary:

freetype module crashes Xserver with latest libfreetype2

Product:

xorg

Reporter:

Stefan Dirsch <sndirsch>

Component:

Build/Monolithic

Assignee:

Keith Packard <keithp>

Status:

RESOLVED FIXED

QA Contact:

Severity:

normal

Priority:

high

CC:

basic, dparsons, eich, mfabian

Version:

6.8.2

Keywords:

patch

Hardware:

All

OS:

Linux (All)

Whiteboard:

i915 platform:

i915 features:

Attachments:

Description	Flags
libfreetype patch	none
freetype module patch	none

Description Stefan Dirsch 2005-07-31 02:55:35 UTC

I just tried to update libfreetype2 to 2.1.10. Unfortunately, the Xserver 
freetype module uses some internal libfreetype2 interface, which changed in 
the new version of libfreetype2. This results in Xserver crashes and is 
related to embedded bitmap support in libfreetype2. 
 
More details could be found here: 
 
  http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/freetype-devel/2005-07/msg00020.html 
 
I attach a small patch, which avoids the crashes for me - and disables  
embedded bitmap support completely. :-(

Comment 1 Stefan Dirsch 2005-07-31 02:57:39 UTC

Created attachment 3194 [details]
SSH key for Sami Wagiaalla

Comment 2 Stefan Dirsch 2005-07-31 03:00:13 UTC

After reverting some changes in libfreetype 2.1.10 (I'll attach another patch 
for this) the Xserver no longer crashes (also without the Xserver patch 
above). Since I'm quite sure, that these changes were intentional the 
libfreetype patch should only be used as workaround for now. The libfreetype 
developers didn't comment yet. :-(

Comment 3 Stefan Dirsch 2005-07-31 03:02:25 UTC

Created attachment 3195 [details] [review]
Patch to ensure no test shares displays across tet_fork

Comment 4 Stefan Dirsch 2005-07-31 03:03:55 UTC

Assigning to Keith.

Comment 5 Alan Coopersmith 2005-10-09 01:00:49 UTC

Previously attached patches lost in bugzilla disk death.

Comment 6 Stefan Dirsch 2005-10-09 01:48:58 UTC

Created attachment 3516 [details] [review]
libfreetype patch

Comment 7 Stefan Dirsch 2005-10-09 01:49:44 UTC

Created attachment 3517 [details] [review]
freetype module patch

Comment 8 Stefan Dirsch 2005-10-09 01:55:17 UTC

- libfreetype patch by mfabian@suse.de 
- freetype module patch by eich@suse.de

Comment 9 Erik Andren 2006-05-31 01:34:28 UTC

Any plans on merging these patches?

Comment 10 Timo Jyrinki 2007-02-22 14:27:30 UTC

Marking broken (status null/blank) bugs in xorg with no activity in a long time as fixed. Please reopen if you think it's necessary, but first do a search if a similar bug report is already filed and in a NEW/ASSIGNED state. These bugs do not currently show in most search results as they do not have any status.

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Comment 11 Stefan Dirsch 2007-02-22 20:54:49 UTC

Yes, I think these patches are obsoleted by current X.Org/freetype2 versions. At least SUSE no longer uses these patches for X.Org/freetype2.

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