[Intel-gfx] [PATCH] lib/drmtest: don't use asprintf on signal paths

Chris Wilson chris at chris-wilson.co.uk
Tue Feb 4 22:29:29 CET 2014


On Tue, Feb 04, 2014 at 09:15:14PM +0200, Imre Deak wrote:
> It's not signal safe and I got kms_flip in hung state with the backtrace
> below, while the parent process waiting for the signal helper to exit.
> It was quite easy to reproduce the bug by running
> 
> kms_flip --run-subtest=flip-vs-dpms-off-vs-modeset

snprintf is not signalsafe either (man 7 signal). X goes as far as
implementing its own limited pnprintf() instead.
-Chris

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Chris Wilson, Intel Open Source Technology Centre



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