Bug 609434

Summary:	x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.1: Xorg crashes with SIGSEGV in sna_set_cursor_position()
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	ngg
Component:	Current packages	Assignee:	Matt Turner <mattst88>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	ngg, x11
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99358
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	611056

Description ngg 2017-02-15 14:47:23 UTC

If someone has a rotated screen then xorg crashes every half hour on average.
This bug is already reported and fixed upstream.
Please create a patch based on the 3 commits that fixes this issue.
I'm not sure if older versions are affected.

Upstream bugreport:
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99358

The 3 commits that fix this issue:
7198a6d4e74f684cb383b3e0f70dd2bae405e6e7 
cfddd919cce4178baba07959e5e862d02e166522
3eb964e25243056dd998f52d3b00171b71c89189

Comment 1 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-02-16 15:37:58 UTC

Thanks for notifying us. I just asked upstream about the plans for an xserver-1.19.2 release. If it's not imminent I'll add the patches.

Comment 2 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-02-16 15:39:10 UTC

FWIW, https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=99358#c9 indicates that this is not a problem with the 1.18 series.

Comment 3 Matt Turner gentoo-dev

2017-03-02 23:25:04 UTC

xorg-server-1.19.2 is now in the tree, with the fixes.