On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 11:30:07 +0000, Michel Dänzer wrote: > On Tue, 2005-11-22 at 22:35 +0100, Samuel Hym wrote: > > > > The __driUtilCreateScreen function (line 1357 and beyond...) is > > freeing, at the end, framebuffer.dev_priv that has never been > > allocated when drmOpen(NULL,BusID) fails to open > > for instance, which must be the case in this bug report (when > > /dev/dri/* are not readable for the user calling the function, for > > instance). > > > > Initializing framebuffer.dev_priv at NULL at the very beginning of the > > function solved the symptom in my case but access to framebuffer.base > > should probably not be allowed either. In a word: framebuffer should > > be initialized to be somewhat valid in case of failures in the > > function. > > Sounds like you could provide a patch? If you do, please also submit it > upstream at http://bugs.freedesktop.org . > The code affected by this bug seems to have changed a lot between 6.8.2 and now, so I think that this is fixed upstream (and probably in experimental). Samuel, could you try the Xorg debs from experimental and confirm whether the bug is fixed?
Thanks, Julien
