[ANNOUNCE] libevdev 1.2

David Herrmann dh.herrmann at gmail.com
Wed May 7 01:13:08 PDT 2014


Hi

On Wed, May 7, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Daniel Martin <consume.noise at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 7 May 2014 09:41, David Herrmann <dh.herrmann at gmail.com> wrote:
>> You probably run a pre-3.11 kernel, do you? EVIOCREVOKE isn't
>> available there so the tests are meant to fail. I wonder why it fails
>> with segfault, though. Can you run the test directly and try to get a
>> backtrace? (gdb ./test-kernel)
>
> The segfault happened due to a null dereference and is fixed with
> Peters patch "Ignore NULL as argument in libevdev_uinput_destroy()".
> With the patch and not having the permission to open the devices the
> tests "fail properly" with a permission denied instead of a segfault.

I just saw the patch, makes sense.

Thanks
David


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