Re: Fixed X Debian Packages For Allocation Bug #280384

[Jurij Smakov <jurij@wooyd.org>]

On Fri, 3 Dec 2004 foo_bar_baz_boo-deb@yahoo.com wrote:

> Please visit http://www.mhcomputing.net/debian to download fixed
> packages that do not have the allocation problem.
>
> Thanks to those who were able to a) find the problem I and others
> reported, b) identify the cause, and c) patch the bug, and d) compile X
> over again.

Please note that Richard's patch has now been accepted into the XFS' 
SVN repository, so that with the next X upload fixed packages are 
going to be available in unstable. Quoting [0]:

 Author: branden
 Date: 2004-12-02 23:24:44 -0500 (Thu, 02 Dec 2004)
 New Revision: 2043

 Modified:
    trunk/debian/CHANGESETS
    trunk/debian/TODO
    trunk/debian/changelog
    trunk/debian/patches/071_nonexecutable_malloced_mem.diff
    trunk/debian/patches/600_amd64_support.diff
 Log:
 Apply patch from Richard Mortimer to fix the XFree86 X server's ELF object
 loader to set the PROT_EXEC flag on mmap()ed modules regardless of machine
 architecture.  (It was already trying to do this, but there are two
 preprocessor statements involved, and we were only patching one.)
 (Closes: #280384)

Good work.

[0] http://lists.debian.org/debian-x/2004/12/msg00035.html

Best regards,

Jurij Smakov                                        jurij@wooyd.org
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