Bug 13860

Summary: Reproducable segfault in X server if config file is wrong
Product: xorg Reporter: David F. Skoll <dfs>
Component: Server/Ext/DRIAssignee: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact: Xorg Project Team <xorg-team>
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium CC: esigra
Version: 7.1 (2006.05)   
Hardware: x86 (IA32)   
OS: Linux (All)   
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i915 platform: i915 features:
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Bug Blocks: 10101    

Description David F. Skoll 2007-12-29 20:31:19 UTC 
I accidentally changed the "Mode 0666" to "Mode 666" in the DRI section of xorg.conf.  That results in crazy permissions on /dev/dri/card0 like this:

c-w--wx-wT root root 226, 0 Dec 29 22:18 /dev/dri/card0

Trying to run glxinfo or glxgears makes the server segfault:

Backtrace:
0: /usr/bin/X(xf86SigHandler+0x84) [0x80c4374]
1: [0xb7f85420]
2: /usr/lib/dri/mga_dri.so [0xb5f3d36d]
3: /usr/lib/dri/mga_dri.so [0xb5ef4473]
4: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so [0xb7c6cdbb]
5: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so(DoCreateContext+0x10f) [0xb7c4717f]
6: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so(__glXCreateContext+0x44) [0xb7c47994]
7: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libglx.so [0xb7c49f6a]
8: /usr/bin/X(Dispatch+0x19b) [0x8086ccb]
9: /usr/bin/X(main+0x489) [0x806e6b9]
10: /lib/tls/libc.so.6(__libc_start_main+0xc8) [0xb7d7eea8]
11: /usr/bin/X(FontFileCompleteXLFD+0xa5) [0x806d9f1]

Fatal server error:
Caught signal 11.  Server aborting

A simple misconfiguration shouldn't cause a segfault.

Regards,

David.
Comment 1 David Nusinow 2008-03-02 14:13:18 UTC 
I've just pushed a fix to git. Thanks for your report!

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