libX11: 32-bit request number wrapping bug

[Jan Smout]

Hello Keith,

Trying one more time with a changed subject line...


On 20 August 2014 14:19, Jan Smout <smout.jan at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> Dear Keith,
>
>
> thought I'd ping you again. Please fix your spam filter!
>
>
> Regarding this patch:
> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/16753/
>
>
> my question is very simple: is this patch good enough to be put in a
> distro release? Or are there things to be clarified?
>
> I'm trying to get it into the upcoming Mageia 5 release (I assume it will
> be released before Xorg releases it's next libX11 version)
>
>
> I cannot stress enough the seriousness of this bug. An application that
> gets killed by a library without any way to recover is not something to be
> taken lightly. In a certain sense I got lucky that my app is so heavy on
> graphics, so I was able to find a solution rather quickly (as did Jonas
> btw).
> I suspect most people just see (seemingly) random crashes, shrug and
> restart whatever they were running and then blame the application
> programmer for writing shitty software. I find that hard to accept...
>
>
> best regards,
> Jan
>
> On 6 August 2014 17:14, Jan Smout <smout.jan at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello Keith,
>>
>> my previous mails probably got lost in the noise. Please see my question
>> below:
>>
>>
>> On 29 July 2014 18:56, Jan Smout <smout.jan at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> I recently stumbled into an application that crashed because of this:
>>> https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=71338
>>>
>>> and quickly found the following patch:
>>> http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/16753/
>>>
>>> which seems to work fine (the application used to crash in less than 24
>>> hrs. Has been running for 5 days straight with the patch).
>>>
>>>
>>> Now my question: what is the status of this patch? Are there still
>>> details to be clarified before it can be put into the main tree?
>>>
>>>
>>> best regards,
>>> Jan
>>> --
>>> Life is complex, it has a real part and an imaginary part.
>>>
>>
>>
>>
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