[PATCH regression] os: call va_start() before va_copy()

Peter Hutterer peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Mon Apr 9 22:44:58 PDT 2012


On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 10:38:13PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> git fetch origin
> git rebase origin/master
> 
> ;)
> 
> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=eca58ee4db43d85e5940919be094c38ad166d5d0

doh.

thanks

> On Apr 9, 2012, at 10:28 PM, Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net> wrote:
> 
> > Otherwise we copy random stuff, which is less than ideal.
> > Introduced in a818b305989bbcde4e585112a7ee70cbc0b14a92
> > 
> > Test-case: start server as user other than root, segfault triggered when
> > xf86OpenConsole's calls FatalError.
> > 
> > Backtrace:
> > 0: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (xorg_backtrace+0x41) [0x47a9d9]
> > 1: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (0x400000+0x81cfc) [0x481cfc]
> > 2: /lib64/libpthread.so.0 (0x3d1e200000+0xf500) [0x3d1e20f500]
> > 3: /lib64/libc.so.6 (_IO_vfprintf+0x4758) [0x3d1de4bb98]
> > 4: /lib64/libc.so.6 (vsnprintf+0xa2) [0x3d1de76b82]
> > 5: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (LogVWrite+0x10c) [0x4808d1]
> > 6: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (VErrorF+0x25) [0x4815f2]
> > 7: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (FatalError+0xc4) [0x48157b]
> > 8: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (LockServer+0x3f8) [0x482c25]
> > 9: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (OsInit+0x3f7) [0x4821a2]
> > 10: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (0x400000+0x8fbd5) [0x48fbd5]
> > 11: /lib64/libc.so.6 (__libc_start_main+0xed) [0x3d1de2169d]
> > 12: ./hw/xfree86/Xorg (0x400000+0x212f9) [0x4212f9]
> > 
> > Segmentation fault at address (nil)
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer at who-t.net>
> > ---
> > os/log.c |    1 +
> > 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/os/log.c b/os/log.c
> > index 9a71969..e554a8c 100644
> > --- a/os/log.c
> > +++ b/os/log.c
> > @@ -601,6 +601,7 @@ FatalError(const char *f, ...)
> >     else
> >         ErrorF("\nFatal server error:\n");
> > 
> > +    va_start(args, f);
> >     /* Make a copy for OsVendorFatalError */
> >     va_copy(args2, args);
> > 
> > -- 
> > 1.7.7.6
> > 
> 


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