[Spice-devel] [PATCH xf86-qxl] Fix crash when calling CrtcRotate()

Christophe Fergeau cfergeau at redhat.com
Thu Sep 18 04:26:42 PDT 2014


On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 06:04:17PM +0200, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> Although the driver doesn't support rotation, drmmode_set_mode_major may
> call CrtcRotate when the crtc mode doesn't fit on screen.
> 
> This will trigger a call to crtc->shadow_allocate() that will result in
> SEGV since our driver doesn't implement it. Instead, let's fail
> gracefully.

A bit confused that we try to call something that cannot work in our
code. Can drmmode_set_mode_major report an error rather than attempting
to rotate?

Christophe
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