[resend with fixed changelog entry PATCH] xfree86: Strip dangling pointers from desiredMode

Keith Packard keithp at keithp.com
Wed Jul 11 15:56:54 PDT 2012


Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst at canonical.com> writes:

> Based on the original patch by Chris Wilson, which was a better fix than mine.
>
> We stash a copy of the desiredMode on the crtc so that we can restore it
> after a vt switch. This copy is a simple memcpy and so also stashes a
> references to the pointers contained within the desiredMode. Those
> pointers are freed the next time the outputs are probed and mode list
> rebuilt, resulting in us chasing those dangling pointers on the next
> mode switch.

Merged.
   59c2c4f..deb0865  master -> master

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keith.packard at intel.com
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