[Bug 41653] New: Xorg crashes on exit [bisected]

Jeremy Huddleston jeremyhu at apple.com
Tue Oct 25 18:08:42 PDT 2011


While we do need to get to the root cause, the extra sanity checking in here is good.

Reviewed-by: Jeremy Huddleston <jeremyhu at apple.com>

On Oct 11, 2011, at 5:38 AM, Michal Suchanek wrote:

>> Looks like Xorg crashes on exit after 463dd87
>> 
>> To reproduce:
>> 
>> export DISPLAY=:1 ; X :1 & sleep 2 ; dwm &  sleep 1 ; xrandr --output DVI-0
>> --off ; xrandr --output HDMI-0 --auto --rotate left ; xrandr --output DVI-0
>> --auto --left-of HDMI-0 ; sleep 3 ; kill %1
>> 
>> (gdb) bt full
>> #0  DamageUnregister (pDrawable=0x0, pDamage=0x22da320) at
>> ../../../miext/damage/damage.c:1923
>>        pScreen = <value optimized out>
>>        pScrPriv = 0x0
>> #1  0x00000000004b04cb in xf86RotateDestroy (crtc=0x2036890) at
>> ../../../../hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Rotate.c:308
>>        pScrn = <value optimized out>
>>        pScreen = 0x2040c80
>>        xf86_config = 0x2036700
>>        c = <value optimized out>
>> #2  0x00000000004b05d5 in xf86RotateCloseScreen (screen=<value optimized out>)
>>    at ../../../../hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Rotate.c:344
>>        scrn = <value optimized out>
>>        xf86_config = 0x2036700
>>        c = <value optimized out>
>> #3  0x00000000004a2182 in xf86CrtcCloseScreen (index=0, screen=0x2040c80) at
>> ../../../../hw/xfree86/modes/xf86Crtc.c:745
>>        scrn = <value optimized out>
>>        config = 0x2036700
>>        o = <value optimized out>
>>        c = <value optimized out>
>> #4  0x00000000004c07fb in CursorCloseScreen (index=0, pScreen=0x2040c80) at
>> ../../xfixes/cursor.c:207
>>        ret = <value optimized out>
>>        close_proc = <value optimized out>
>>        display_proc = <value optimized out>
>>        constrain_proc = <value optimized out>
>> #5  0x00000000004f498c in AnimCurCloseScreen (index=<value optimized out>,
>> pScreen=<value optimized out>)
>>    at ../../render/animcur.c:106
>>        as = 0x2070d60
>>        ret = <value optimized out>
>> #6  0x000000000042719f in main (argc=2, argv=<value optimized out>, envp=<value
>> optimized out>) at ../../dix/main.c:327
>>        i = 0
>>        alwaysCheckForInput = {0, 1}
>> 
> 
> I worked around the crash by not calling DamageUnregister if drawable is 0.
> 
>        /* Free damage structure */
>        if (xf86_config->rotation_damage_registered)
>        {
>            DrawablePtr screenDrawable = &pScreen->root->drawable;
>            if (screenDrawable) DamageUnregister (screenDrawable,
>                              xf86_config->rotation_damage);
> 
> 
> This causes a double-free of the damage, likely on the next line.
>  DamageDestroy (xf86_config->rotation_damage);
> 
> 
> I suspect the issue is that  (xf86_config->rotation_damage_registered)
> is independent of the damage being actually valid.
> 
> In FreeAllResources it is already destroyed by the point X gets to
> CursorCloseScreen.
> 
> 
> ==7817== Invalid read of size 8
> ==7817==    at 0x4F74F0: DamageDestroy (damage.c:1962)
> ==7817==    by 0x4B065E: xf86RotateDestroy (xf86Rotate.c:314)
> ==7817==    by 0x4B0774: xf86RotateCloseScreen (xf86Rotate.c:345)
> ==7817==    by 0x4A2311: xf86CrtcCloseScreen (xf86Crtc.c:745)
> ==7817==    by 0x4C093A: CursorCloseScreen (cursor.c:207)
> ==7817==    by 0x4F483B: AnimCurCloseScreen (animcur.c:106)
> ==7817==    by 0x4272EE: main (main.c:327)
> ==7817==  Address 0xb666e28 is 136 bytes inside a block of size 152 free'd
> ==7817==    at 0x4C268FE: free (in
> /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> ==7817==    by 0x4F7655: damageDestroyWindow (damage.c:1741)
> ==7817==    by 0x7CB43D9: XvDestroyWindow (xvmain.c:439)
> ==7817==    by 0x489F32: xf86XVDestroyWindow (xf86xv.c:1153)
> ==7817==    by 0x45D5E3: FreeWindowResources (window.c:941)
> ==7817==    by 0x460347: DeleteWindow (window.c:1019)
> ==7817==    by 0x456F41: doFreeResource (resource.c:571)
> ==7817==    by 0x457C79: FreeClientResources (resource.c:853)
> ==7817==    by 0x457D26: FreeAllResources (resource.c:869)
> ==7817==    by 0x42726D: main (main.c:308)
> ==7817==
> ==7817== Invalid read of size 8
> ==7817==    at 0x4F7520: DamageDestroy (damage.c:1965)
> ==7817==    by 0x4B065E: xf86RotateDestroy (xf86Rotate.c:314)
> ==7817==    by 0x4B0774: xf86RotateCloseScreen (xf86Rotate.c:345)
> ==7817==    by 0x4A2311: xf86CrtcCloseScreen (xf86Crtc.c:745)
> ==7817==    by 0x4C093A: CursorCloseScreen (cursor.c:207)
> ==7817==    by 0x4F483B: AnimCurCloseScreen (animcur.c:106)
> ==7817==    by 0x4272EE: main (main.c:327)
> ==7817==  Address 0xb666df0 is 80 bytes inside a block of size 152 free'd
> ==7817==    at 0x4C268FE: free (in
> /usr/lib/valgrind/vgpreload_memcheck-amd64-linux.so)
> ==7817==    by 0x4F7655: damageDestroyWindow (damage.c:1741)
> ==7817==    by 0x7CB43D9: XvDestroyWindow (xvmain.c:439)
> ==7817==    by 0x489F32: xf86XVDestroyWindow (xf86xv.c:1153)
> ==7817==    by 0x45D5E3: FreeWindowResources (window.c:941)
> ==7817==    by 0x460347: DeleteWindow (window.c:1019)
> ==7817==    by 0x456F41: doFreeResource (resource.c:571)
> ==7817==    by 0x457C79: FreeClientResources (resource.c:853)
> ==7817==    by 0x457D26: FreeAllResources (resource.c:869)
> ==7817==    by 0x42726D: main (main.c:308)
> ==7817==
> 
> Doing the check around the whole damage handling workarounds both the
> crash and the double free.
> 
> I ma not sure this is a very robust solution, though. I wonder if the
> damage could be unregistered from the screen when it is destroyed.
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Michal
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