Bug 832802

Summary:	webkitgtk should not be overriding global C++ new/delete
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Dave Airlie <airlied>
Component:	webkitgtk3	Assignee:	Matthias Clasen <mclasen>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	17	CC:	fche, fedora, kalevlember, mclasen, phatina
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Description Dave Airlie 2012-06-17 14:08:42 UTC

Description of problem:

When gnome-control-center loads webkitgtk via one plugin and dri drivers via another plugin, some llvm code seems to allocate a string via webkit allocator and frees it via the default allocator. This is something that I'm not sure isn't a gcc/libstdc++ bug but from reading on webkit, its recommended on some platform to not override the default malloc. It also appears that webkitqt doesn't do this.

So we should patch webkitgtk3 to not enable its global memory allocator override.

Comment 1 Frank Ch. Eigler 2012-06-17 15:39:32 UTC

Or at least it should hide its definition of these symbols from the dynamic symbol table via  __attribute__ ((visibility ("hidden"))) -- see also http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/Visibility

Comment 2 Kalev Lember 2012-07-20 22:01:00 UTC

Looks like http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/122011/releases/WebKitGTK/webkit-1.8 is supposed to fix this on upstream 1.8 branch.

Comment 3 Fedora Update System 2012-08-30 18:25:03 UTC

webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17

Comment 4 Fedora Update System 2012-08-31 00:59:36 UTC

Package webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17:
* should fix your issue,
* was pushed to the Fedora 17 testing repository,
* should be available at your local mirror within two days.
Update it with:
# su -c 'yum update --enablerepo=updates-testing webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17'
as soon as you are able to.
Please go to the following url:
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2012-13029/webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17
then log in and leave karma (feedback).

Comment 5 Fedora Update System 2012-09-26 08:49:12 UTC

webkitgtk3-1.8.3-1.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.