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Bug 555000

Summary: Using BIG-REQUESTS cause XIO and connection close
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan>
Component: xorg-x11-serverAssignee: Adam Jackson <ajax>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Desktop QE <desktop-qa-list>
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Priority: medium    
Version: 5.4CC: kem, mgordon, spoyarek, tjamrisk, vbenes
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PAtch from upstream bug 7186 none

Description Olivier Fourdan 2010-01-13 11:36:17 UTC 
Created attachment 383461 [details]
PAtch from upstream bug 7186

Description of problem:

From the upstream bug, if a client makes a request that is bigger than 1/4th the limit advertised in the BigRequestsEnable reply, the X server closes the connection.

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

xorg-x11-server-Xorg-1.1.1-48.67.el5

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Download and build reproducer program
2. Run reproducer program
3. Resize the window to something larger than 1024x1024
  
Actual results:

X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown)

Expected results:

Window is resized

Additional info:

This is upstream bug 7186

  https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7186

Patch from upstream:

  http://cgit.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/commit/?id=ca82d4bddf235c9b68d51d68636bab40eafb9889
Comment 3 RHEL Program Management 2010-09-29 16:47:38 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2011-05-31 15:36:21 UTC 
This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for
inclusion in the current release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Because the affected component is not scheduled to be updated in the
current release, Red Hat is unfortunately unable to address this
request at this time. Red Hat invites you to ask your support
representative to propose this request, if appropriate and relevant,
in the next release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Comment 10 Adam Jackson 2011-08-18 14:13:26 UTC 
Built in https://bugzilla.redhat.com/attachment.cgi?id=383461

MODIFIED
Comment 14 errata-xmlrpc 2012-02-21 03:10:24 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, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

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

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0303.html