[PATCH] xfree86: bail on misformed acpi strings (#73227)

Julien Cristau jcristau at debian.org
Sat Feb 23 05:43:26 PST 2013


On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 16:41:59 +1000, Peter Hutterer wrote:

> From: Ted Felix <ted at tedfelix.com>
> 
> If acpid sends a string in a format that we can't parse, bail out instead of
> potentially dereferencing a NULL-pointer.
> 
> X.Org Bug 73227 <http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73227>
> 
Bug number looks like a typo?  Maybe that was supposed to be
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=55329

(There's also http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/12702/ btw, which
looks essentially the same)

Cheers,
Julien


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