[PATCH wayland] protocol: Bump seat to version 7 and require keymaps be private

[Pekka Paalanen]

On Thu,  1 Nov 2018 11:15:46 -0500
Derek Foreman <derek.foreman.samsung at gmail.com> wrote:

> Weston commit 76829fc4eaea329d2a525c3978271e13bd76c078 (and similar
> commits for other compositors) protects the compositor's keyboard
> mapping from client damage by duplicating the keymap for every
> client.
> 
> On some systems there are other potential fixes for this - such as
> using sealed memfds on linux - but we can't use them since
> essentially all client code anywhere has mapped the keyboard map
> with a MAP_SHARED mmap() call.
> 
> While we can't break years worth of code, we can require any future
> clients to use MAP_PRIVATE if they use a seat version above 6.
> 
> If a compositor can't use sealing or a similar facility, it should
> still protect itself with copied keymaps, but clients must always
> assume shared mapping of a keymap will fail.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Derek Foreman <derek.foreman.samsung at gmail.com>
> ---
>  protocol/wayland.xml | 11 +++++++----
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

Acked-by: Pekka Paalanen <pekka.paalanen at collabora.co.uk>


Thanks,
pq
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