Bug 14536 - Null pointer dereference at xf86Init.c:1956
Summary: Null pointer dereference at xf86Init.c:1956
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: xorg
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Server/General (show other bugs)
Version: git
Hardware: Other All
: medium normal
Assignee: Xorg Project Team
QA Contact: Xorg Project Team
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Reported: 2008-02-18 01:38 UTC by Guillaume Melquiond
Modified: 2008-02-19 00:07 UTC (History)
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Description Guillaume Melquiond 2008-02-18 01:38:12 UTC 
The topic says it all. In case of loading failure, desc is NULL, so xfree(desc->name) throws the server into lalaland.
Comment 1 Peter Hutterer 2008-02-18 17:56:54 UTC 
thanks, I forgot to git-update-index before I committed.
fix is pushed as 6cbaf15e6109ba77819c4070f5b46c78237ec460
Comment 2 Peter Hutterer 2008-02-19 00:07:20 UTC 
*** Bug 14563 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

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