Bug 86665

Summary: Xorg does not close old /dev/dri/card0 connections
Product: xorg Reporter: Isabelle <blacklemon67>
Component: Server/Ext/DRIAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED MOVED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium Keywords: patch
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: x86-64 (AMD64)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Xorg log file
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outpout of lsof command none

Description Isabelle 2014-11-24 15:34:09 UTC 
Recently I've been getting a lot of "maximum number of x clients reached" errors. On my computer I run two X servers. I switch between them pretty regularly with crtl+alt+f1/f2.

I've been trying to figure out why I keep getting this error. xlsclients only lists 12 items, xrestop doesn't show much more. As of this writing I'm currently getting this error and cannot open any more processes. `lsof -U` lists 203 items (mostly chromium, but I don't think that's the problem here), but `sudo ls /proc/2541/fd` has 259 items (2541 is the pid of Xorg.bin.)

Now here's the thing, if I switch between my two x servers with ctrl+alt+f1/f2 (this works even if tty2 is a framebuffer) the number of items in /proc/2541/fd increases by one. Indeed if I run `sudo ls -p 2541` there's a new entry, /dev/dri/card0

I think that every time I switch, X re-opens my graphics card, but never closes the old connection. the number of items lsof -U doesn't change when I do this, so none of my programs are to blame, this is just X.

Because there are a lot of old connections floating around, I'm guessing the number of clients X can have is severely limited. I think this is why I'm getting these errors.

Not sure if this is a DRI extension error, saw the dri in /dev/dri/card0 and assumed.

I just updated three days ago too. Still have this problem.

~$ Xorg.bin -version
X.Org X Server 1.16.2
Release Date: 2014-11-10
X Protocol Version 11, Revision 0
Build Operating System: Linux 3.17.2-1-ARCH x86_64 
Current Operating System: Linux blackle-thinkpad 3.17.3-3-ck #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Nov 18 16:50:56 EST 2014 x86_64
Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-linux-ck root=UUID=65d91862-d03e-4b93-b52c-6dae55b39a97 ro nox2apic rcutree.rcu_idle_gp_delay=1 init=/usr/lib/systemd/systemd
Build Date: 10 November 2014  07:52:13PM
 
Current version of pixman: 0.32.6
	Before reporting problems, check http://wiki.x.org
	to make sure that you have the latest version.
Comment 1 Tyna Pelletier 2016-03-11 12:28:41 UTC 
Hi,
I can confirm that issue is still present in 2016:
I'm running archlinux with the latest xorg.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Start X server (via a display manager or xinitrc it doesn't matter).
2. Login to another tty.
3. Switch between them and use 'lsof -p ($pidof Xorg) | wc -l to monitor.

Each time, the number will increase, till it reaches the limit and even above (I got 702 last time), and start throwing 'maximum number of clients reached' errors.
Comment 2 Michel Dänzer 2016-03-14 08:39:47 UTC 
Please attach the Xorg log file corresponding to the problem.
Comment 3 Tyna Pelletier 2016-03-14 11:53:54 UTC 
Created attachment 122274 [details]
Xorg log file
Comment 4 Tyna Pelletier 2016-03-14 11:55:53 UTC 
Created attachment 122275 [details]
outpout of lsof command
Comment 5 Tyna Pelletier 2016-03-14 11:56:57 UTC 
Hi,
here's the output of 'lsof -p $(pidof Xorg)' and my xorg0.log files. I hope this will be useful :)

If you want other files, just tell me and I'll attach them too.

Thanks
Comment 6 Chris Wilson 2016-03-14 12:19:24 UTC 
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/systemd-logind.c b/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/systemd-logind.c
index 13784d1..9f196ef 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/systemd-logind.c
+++ b/hw/xfree86/os-support/linux/systemd-logind.c
@@ -417,9 +417,10 @@ message_filter(DBusConnection * connection, DBusMessage * message, void *data)
         /* info->vt_active gets set by systemd_logind_vtenter() */
         info->active = TRUE;
 
-        if (pdev)
+        if (pdev) {
+            close(fd);
             pdev->flags &= ~XF86_PDEV_PAUSED;
-        else
+        } else
             systemd_logind_set_input_fd_for_all_devs(major, minor, fd,
                                                      info->vt_active);
Comment 7 Adam Jackson 2018-06-13 19:02:43 UTC 
Calling comment #6 a "patch" is a bit generous, but.
Comment 8 GitLab Migration User 2018-12-13 18:32:09 UTC 
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