SwitchCoreKeyboard crash
Peter Hutterer
peter.hutterer at who-t.net
Fri Aug 22 00:16:41 PDT 2008
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 11:32:26PM -0700, Jeremy Huddleston wrote:
> I'm seeing reports of a crash in SwitchCoreKeyboard in the 1.4-apple
> branch (we haven't done anything special to SwitchCoreKeyboard). I've
> tracked it down to pDev->key being null. I'm just going to throw in
> some sanity checking to SwitchCoreKeyboard, but I'd like to figure out
> where this bad event is originating from. Where do SwitchCoreKeyboard
> events get sent? There are a lot showing up in the logs, but input
> devices are not changing.
SCK is called from mieqProcessInputEvents each time a keyboard event is
processed.
If you have pDev->key being NULL suggests either a non-keyboard device sends
key events (in which case it should crash during GetKeyboardValuatorEvents
anyway*) or memory is somewhat screwed.
Cheers,
Peter
* not sure if you use GKVE, GetPointerEvents, ... in the apple branch.
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