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title="NEW - Gallium OSMesa driver is far from being thread-safe"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95035#c8">Comment # 8</a>
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title="NEW - Gallium OSMesa driver is far from being thread-safe"
href="https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=95035">bug 95035</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:sroland@vmware.com" title="Roland Scheidegger <sroland@vmware.com>"> <span class="fn">Roland Scheidegger</span></a>
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<pre>(In reply to Frederic Devernay from <a href="show_bug.cgi?id=95035#c5">comment #5</a>)
<span class="quote">> OK, there was another issue, which actually may affect other Gallium drivers
> as well:
>
> st_framebuffer_reuse_or_create() uses pointer comparison to check if it can
> reuse a framebuffer.
>
> The problem is that a call to free followed by a call to malloc may very
> well return the exact same pointer! Pointer comparison should be used as a
> safe check but is very unreliable.</span >
Yes, I think this is the same issue as originally reported here:
<a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=395818">https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=395818</a></pre>
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