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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_ASSIGNED "
   title="ASSIGNED - libinput context refcounting frees memory early"
   href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=91872">91872</a>
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          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>libinput context refcounting  frees memory early
          </td>
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          <th>Product</th>
          <td>Wayland
          </td>
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          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
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          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>Other
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>All
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          <th>Status</th>
          <td>ASSIGNED
          </td>
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          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
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          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>medium
          </td>
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>libinput
          </td>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>wayland-bugs@lists.freedesktop.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>peter.hutterer@who-t.net
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        <pre>The refcounting on the context itself does not take client-held references in
the child structs into account.

Pseudocode example:
        li = libinput_path_create_context(&interface, NULL);
        device = libinput_path_add_device(li, "/dev/input/event0");
        libinput_device_ref(device);
        libinput_unref(li); <--- resources are cleaned up

The device has a refcount of at least 1 on cleanup, the client has access to
the struct and could, in the future, try to call libinput_device_get_context().

However, the libinput context is cleaned up and all devices are removed. The
device the client has a ref to points to a freed memory.

This also affects libinput_device_groups if the device is removed with a ref to
the group still handling. It does not affect seats, since the context always
has a ref to the seat and the bug simply isn't triggered.</pre>
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