[PATCH xserver] Search for DRI drivers at LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH environment variable.
Alan Coopersmith
alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Tue Apr 12 18:08:39 UTC 2016
On 04/12/16 10:59 AM, Carlos Alberto Lopez Perez wrote:
> * The Mesa driver uses this environment variable to override the
> default compiled search path for DRI drivers.
>
> * This is useful for testing purposes when the user needs to
> override the system default one at runtime.
> + dri_driver_path = getenv("LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH");
Yeah, I really would rather not have a setuid-root program dlopen and execute
code from a user supplied path. Can we have something in there to prevent
disasters, such as issetugid() or secure_getenv()?
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at oracle.com
Oracle Solaris Engineering - http://blogs.oracle.com/alanc
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