Comment 19 for bug 324368

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Matt Zimmerman (mdz) wrote : Re: [Bug 324368] Re: Xorg crashed with SIGSEGV in XisbRead()

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:51:59PM -0000, Bryce Harrington wrote:
> Patching for the null ptr seems to be an insufficient fix. But for a
> better fix upstream needs a reproducible test case.
>
> Kees or Matt, either of you have steps for reproducing this crash? If
> it was a one-time only thing, it could be hard to find a fix.

Kees and I both experienced it independently, so it wasn't a one-time thing.
There is surely a bug here. Have you considered possible cases where the
null pointer could be passed in via the synaptics driver?

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 - mdz