xserver/hw
Olivier Fourdan 8830263b0a xwayland: Do not keep the cursor's pixmap around
Currently, Xwayland creates a pixmap backed by shared memory buffer as
soon as an X11 cursor is realized, which is destroyed when the cursor is
eventually unrealized.

If an X11 client is leaking cursors, Xwayland will be creating new
pixmaps continuously, which will eventually cause an error once the
limit is reached, and get Xwayland killed.

However, we do not need the shared memory buffer to stay around, we
already have the buffer retention mechanism which will take care of
keeping the buffer around until the Wayland compositor is done with it,
so we could just create and destroy the pixmap as needed when setting
the cursor.

That would not fix the leak in the X11 application, yet that would
mitigate the risk of Xwayland being killed by reaching the shared memory
limits, until the client itself reaches the limit of X11 resources.

v2: Don't increase the pixmap refcnt to destroy it just after (Michel)

Signed-off-by: Olivier Fourdan <ofourdan@redhat.com>
Suggested-by: Michel Dänzer <michel@daenzer.net>
See-also: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/issues/1773
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xorg/xserver/-/merge_requests/1754>
(cherry picked from commit 8707d2835c)
2026-01-25 10:39:58 -08:00
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kdrive treewide: replace xnfcalloc() calls by XNFcallocarray() 2026-01-25 10:39:55 -08:00
vfb Xvfb: Support up to 13 mouse buttons 2024-01-08 11:16:11 +00:00
xfree86 hw/xfree86: Fix -Wincompatible-pointer-types sbus compile failure 2026-01-25 10:39:58 -08:00
xnest include: dixfontstr.h: drop silent dependency on libxfont2 2026-01-25 10:39:56 -08:00
xquartz xquartz: drop unused code 2026-01-25 10:39:57 -08:00
xwayland xwayland: Do not keep the cursor's pixmap around 2026-01-25 10:39:58 -08:00
xwin xwin: fix memleak on freeing pixmaps 2026-01-25 10:39:57 -08:00
meson.build Drop DMX DDX 2021-09-07 09:34:31 +00:00