Fix for deadlock issue faced in Xorg
Submitted by Ritesh
Assigned to Xorg Project Team
Description
Created attachment 116307 patch for the fix
Fix for potential deadlock issue in Xorg. Block SIGIO, allocate memory and release SIGIO.
In case of SIGIO interrupt generated while memory allocation routine (malloc/calloc) is in execution and SIGIO handler in turn try to allocate memory, deadlock can occur.
This fix is based on version 1.17.1
Attachment 116307, "patch for the fix":
xorg-server-1.17.1.patch