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Bug 653119 - Mageia has a check-pointer crash patch
Mageia has a check-pointer crash patch
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: gnome-shell
Classification: Core
Component: general
unspecified
Other Linux
: Normal normal
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Assigned To: gnome-shell-maint
gnome-shell-maint
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2011-06-21 17:50 UTC by Olav Vitters
Modified: 2011-08-03 15:14 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---

Attachments
gnome-shell-3.0.2-check-pointer.patch (4.99 KB, patch)
2011-06-21 17:50 UTC, Olav Vitters 		none Details | Review
gnome-shell-3.0.2-check-pointer.patch (1.00 KB, patch)
2011-06-21 17:51 UTC, Olav Vitters 		committed Details | Review

Description Olav Vitters 2011-06-21 17:50:13 UTC 
Created attachment 190383 [details] [review]
gnome-shell-3.0.2-check-pointer.patch

I noticed Mageia has a patch to fix a certain crash. Not sure if needed, filing so you're aware and perhaps it can be applied.

Patch from:
http://svnweb.mageia.org/packages/cauldron/gnome-shell/current/SOURCES/
Comment 1 Olav Vitters 2011-06-21 17:51:41 UTC 
Created attachment 190384 [details] [review]
gnome-shell-3.0.2-check-pointer.patch
Comment 2 Owen Taylor 2011-06-22 16:13:30 UTC 
Patch is correct and makes sense to apply, I guess. They were clearly found because of some sort of automated check or added compiler warning since they won't *actually* help anything.

What they do is fix a clean null-pointer-dereference crash if a small memory allocation fails inside Xlib. But if you are failing small memory allocations, then GLib will abort soon after anyways.
Comment 3 Dan Winship 2011-08-03 15:14:55 UTC 
committed and pushed