GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 637464
gdk: Fix GdkWindowFilter internal refcounting
Last modified: 2016-06-27 02:37:08 UTC
Running gnome-shell under valgrind, I saw the attached invalid write. Basically we can destroy a window during event processing, and the old window_remove_filters simply called g_free() on the filter, ignoring the refcount. Then later in event processing we call filter->refcount--, which is writing to free()d memory. Fix this by centralizing list mutation and refcount handling inside a new shared _gdk_window_filter_unref() function, and using that everywhere. ==13876== Invalid write of size 4 ==13876== at 0x446B181: gdk_event_apply_filters (gdkeventsource.c:86) ==13876== by 0x446B411: _gdk_events_queue (gdkeventsource.c:188) ==13876== by 0x44437EF: gdk_display_get_event (gdkdisplay.c:410) ==13876== by 0x446B009: gdk_event_source_dispatch (gdkeventsource.c:317) ==13876== by 0x4AB7159: g_main_context_dispatch (gmain.c:2436) ==13876== by 0x4AB7957: g_main_context_iterate.clone.5 (gmain.c:3087) ==13876== by 0x4AB806A: g_main_loop_run (gmain.c:3295) ==13876== by 0x8084D6B: main (main.c:722) ==13876== Address 0x1658bcac is 12 bytes inside a block of size 16 free'd ==13876== at 0x4005EAD: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:366) ==13876== by 0x4ABE515: g_free (gmem.c:263) ==13876== by 0x444BCC9: window_remove_filters (gdkwindow.c:1873) ==13876== by 0x4454BA3: _gdk_window_destroy_hierarchy (gdkwindow.c:2043) ==13876== by 0x447BF6E: gdk_window_destroy_notify (gdkwindow-x11.c:1115) ==13876== by 0x43588E2: _gtk_socket_windowing_filter_func (gtksocket-x11.c:518) ==13876== by 0x446B170: gdk_event_apply_filters (gdkeventsource.c:79) ==13876== by 0x446B411: _gdk_events_queue (gdkeventsource.c:188) ==13876== by 0x44437EF: gdk_display_get_event (gdkdisplay.c:410) ==13876== by 0x446B009: gdk_event_source_dispatch (gdkeventsource.c:317) ==13876== by 0x4AB7159: g_main_context_dispatch (gmain.c:2436) ==13876== by 0x4AB7957: g_main_context_iterate.clone.5 (gmain.c:3087)
Created attachment 176590 [details] [review] gdk: Fix GdkWindowFilter internal refcounting
Attachment 176590 [details] pushed as 806c044 - gdk: Fix GdkWindowFilter internal refcounting