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author | Philip Withnall <philip.withnall@collabora.co.uk> | 2015-05-29 10:49:21 +0100 |
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committer | David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com> | 2015-06-05 12:48:16 +0200 |
commit | 7ffeb45cc63e1326690fd9461b7a4719a3d4f85c (patch) | |
tree | 32263060cb593f64459dd1d8c0934abe6d1c7d4a /man/machinectl.xml | |
parent | 3a3701f03360f9a292dcab31fda1f6e0e0629c64 (diff) |
logind: Fix user_elect_display() to be more stable
The previous implementation of user_elect_display() could easily end up
overwriting the user’s valid graphical session with a new TTY session.
For example, consider the situation where there is one session:
c1, type = SESSION_X11, !stopping, class = SESSION_USER
it is initially elected as the user’s display (i.e. u->display = c1).
If another session is started, on a different VT, the sessions_by_user
list becomes:
c1, type = SESSION_X11, !stopping, class = SESSION_USER
c2, type = SESSION_TTY, !stopping, class = SESSION_USER
In the previous code, graphical = c1 and text = c2, as expected.
However, neither graphical nor text fulfil the conditions for setting
u->display = graphical (because neither is better than u->display), so
the code falls through to check the text variable. The conditions for
this match, as u->display->type != SESSION_TTY (it’s actually
SESSION_X11). Hence u->display is set to c2, which is incorrect, because
session c1 is still valid.
Refactor user_elect_display() to use a more explicit filter and
pre-order comparison over the sessions. This can be demonstrated to be
stable and only ever ‘upgrade’ the session to a more graphical one.
https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=90769
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