X.org: DBE should validate front and back buffers separately. RHEL 5.2

Solution Verified - Updated -

Issue

  • miDbePositionWindow allocates two pixmaps: a front buffer, and a back buffer. If the buffers are supposed to be initialized, it validates a GC against the front buffer, then uses it to fill and/or copy both the front buffer *and* the back buffer, without revalidating.  If the acceleration architecture needs different GC funcs for the two pixmaps -- for example if allocation of the front buffer exhausted video memory -- then this can cause crashes because the GC is not validated for the back buffer pixmap.

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.2 (RHEL 5.2) 

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