[PATCH v2] xf86: take next pointer before calling handler

Maarten Lankhorst maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com
Tue Dec 4 02:21:36 PST 2012


Stopping acpid before Xorg with valgrind --free-fill=df results in this crash backtrace:

==2670== Invalid read of size 8
==2670==    at 0x1B9CB0: xf86Wakeup (xf86Events.c:276)
==2670==    by 0x1687B2: WakeupHandler (dixutils.c:423)
==2670==    by 0x334793: WaitForSomething (WaitFor.c:224)
==2670==    by 0x159E4B: Dispatch (dispatch.c:357)
==2670==    by 0x14AA78: main (main.c:295)
==2670==  Address 0x783aa90 is 32 bytes inside a block of size 40 free'd
==2670==    at 0x4C2A739: free (in /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
==2670==    by 0x1BA8CA: removeInputHandler (xf86Events.c:645)
==2670==    by 0x1BA96D: xf86RemoveGeneralHandler (xf86Events.c:681)
==2670==    by 0x1F106C: lnxCloseACPI (lnx_acpi.c:174)
==2670==    by 0x1F0CC7: lnxACPIGetEventFromOs (lnx_acpi.c:68)
==2670==    by 0x1CCF49: xf86HandlePMEvents (xf86PM.c:208)
==2670==    by 0x1B9CAB: xf86Wakeup (xf86Events.c:279)
==2670==    by 0x1687B2: WakeupHandler (dixutils.c:423)
==2670==    by 0x334793: WaitForSomething (WaitFor.c:224)
==2670==    by 0x159E4B: Dispatch (dispatch.c:357)
==2670==    by 0x14AA78: main (main.c:295)
==2670== 
==2670== Invalid read of size 4
==2670==    at 0x1B9C29: xf86Wakeup (xf86Events.c:277)
==2670==    by 0x1687B2: WakeupHandler (dixutils.c:423)
==2670==    by 0x334793: WaitForSomething (WaitFor.c:224)
==2670==    by 0x159E4B: Dispatch (dispatch.c:357)
==2670==    by 0x14AA78: main (main.c:295)
==2670==  Address 0xdfdfdfdfdfdfdff7 is not stack'd, malloc'd or (recently) free'd
==2670== 
(EE)==2670== 
==2670== Process terminating with default action of signal 11 (SIGSEGV): dumping core

Taking a pointer to ih->next before calling the event handler fixes this.

Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com>

Changes since v1:
- Use nt_list_for_each_entry_safe, as suggested by Aaron Plattner

---
diff --git a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c
index 41ffabd..6082bee 100644
--- a/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c
+++ b/hw/xfree86/common/xf86Events.c
@@ -270,10 +270,10 @@ xf86Wakeup(pointer blockData, int err, pointer pReadmask)
 	}
     }
 
-    if (err >= 0) { /* we don't want the handlers called if select() */
-	IHPtr ih;   /* returned with an error condition, do we?      */
-	
-	for (ih = InputHandlers; ih; ih = ih->next) {
+    if (err >= 0) {       /* we don't want the handlers called if select() */
+        IHPtr ih, ih_tmp; /* returned with an error condition, do we?      */
+
+        nt_list_for_each_entry_safe(ih, ih_tmp, InputHandlers, next) {
 	    if (ih->enabled && ih->fd >= 0 && ih->ihproc &&
 		(FD_ISSET(ih->fd, ((fd_set *)pReadmask)) != 0)) {
 		ih->ihproc(ih->fd, ih->data);




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