Bug 2046329

Summary:	Xorg crashes with NVIDIA closed source driver in Present code
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan>
Component:	xorg-x11-server	Assignee:	Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Peter Kopec <pekopec>
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Version:	8.6	CC:	pekopec, tpelka
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Description Olivier Fourdan 2022-01-26 15:52:22 UTC

Description of problem:

Xorg will crash with (recent) NVIDIA closed-source driver in Present code as reported upstream in https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1275

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.20.11-6

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install NVIDIA driver series 495 or later
2. Build the present tests which come with xf86-video-intel in test/
3. Run one of the present test

   ./present-test

Actual results:

Xorg crashes in Present code

Expected results:

No crash.

Additional info:

This was reported upstream in:
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1275

fixed with:
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/852

But this is also affecting the 1.20 branch, backport proposed here:
  https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/857

Comment 5 Peter Kopec 2022-01-31 18:19:59 UTC

with updated Xorg-X11-srver xorg does not crash after starting present-test. Tested on TU117.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2022-05-10 14:18:29 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (Moderate: xorg-x11-server and xorg-x11-server-Xwayland security update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2022:1917