[PATCH wayland] server: Don't expose wl_display as a global

Jason Ekstrand jason at jlekstrand.net
Fri Aug 8 14:55:43 PDT 2014


I think this is ok.  To my knowledge, no one is re-binding wl_display or
even relying on that global being exposed.
--Jason


On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 6:55 AM, Jasper St. Pierre <jstpierre at mecheye.net>
wrote:

> The idea here was that once upon a time, clients could rebind wl_display
> to a higher version, so we offered the ability to rebind it
> here. However, this is particularly broken. The existing bind
> implementation actually still hardcodes version numbers, and it leaks
> previous resources, overwriting the existing one.
>
> The newly bound resource *also* won't have any listeners attached by the
> client, meaning that the error and delete_id events won't get delivered
> correctly. Unless the client poked into libwayland internals, it also
> can't possibly set up these handlers correctly either, so the client
> will sustain errors and leak all deleted globals.
>
> Since this never worked correctly in the first place, we can feel safe
> removing it.
> ---
>  src/wayland-server.c | 28 ++++++++--------------------
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/src/wayland-server.c b/src/wayland-server.c
> index 3c162d4..dc3f502 100644
> --- a/src/wayland-server.c
> +++ b/src/wayland-server.c
> @@ -380,9 +380,8 @@ wl_client_get_display(struct wl_client *client)
>         return client->display;
>  }
>
> -static void
> -bind_display(struct wl_client *client,
> -            void *data, uint32_t version, uint32_t id);
> +static int
> +bind_display(struct wl_client *client, struct wl_display *display);
>
>  /** Create a client for the given file descriptor
>   *
> @@ -440,9 +439,7 @@ wl_client_create(struct wl_display *display, int fd)
>                 goto err_map;
>
>         wl_signal_init(&client->destroy_signal);
> -       bind_display(client, display, 1, 1);
> -
> -       if (!client->display_resource)
> +       if (bind_display(client, display) < 0)
>                 goto err_map;
>
>         wl_list_insert(display->client_list.prev, &client->link);
> @@ -772,22 +769,20 @@ destroy_client_display_resource(struct wl_resource
> *resource)
>         resource->client->display_resource = NULL;
>  }
>
> -static void
> -bind_display(struct wl_client *client,
> -            void *data, uint32_t version, uint32_t id)
> +static int
> +bind_display(struct wl_client *client, struct wl_display *display)
>  {
> -       struct wl_display *display = data;
> -
>         client->display_resource =
> -               wl_resource_create(client, &wl_display_interface, 1, id);
> +               wl_resource_create(client, &wl_display_interface, 1, 1);
>         if (client->display_resource == NULL) {
>                 wl_client_post_no_memory(client);
> -               return;
> +               return -1;
>         }
>
>         wl_resource_set_implementation(client->display_resource,
>                                        &display_interface, display,
>                                        destroy_client_display_resource);
> +       return 0;
>  }
>
>  /** Create Wayland display object.
> @@ -831,13 +826,6 @@ wl_display_create(void)
>
>         wl_array_init(&display->additional_shm_formats);
>
> -       if (!wl_global_create(display, &wl_display_interface, 1,
> -                             display, bind_display)) {
> -               wl_event_loop_destroy(display->loop);
> -               free(display);
> -               return NULL;
> -       }
> -
>         return display;
>  }
>
> --
> 2.0.4
>
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