Commit 998c957a3c7c861093f3f71f34989c258ed3073b

Ran Benita 2012-10-30T18:21:56

action: don't allow private actions with a known type Some obscure bug having to do with Private actions; see the comments. This was prompted by: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56491 Signed-off-by: Ran Benita <ran234@gmail.com>

diff --git a/src/text.c b/src/text.c
index bb56b12..8edc0e3 100644
--- a/src/text.c
+++ b/src/text.c
@@ -279,7 +279,7 @@ ModNameToIndex(const struct xkb_keymap *keymap, xkb_atom_t name,
 }
 
 const char *
-ActionTypeText(unsigned type)
+ActionTypeText(enum xkb_action_type type)
 {
     const char *name = LookupValue(actionTypeNames, type);
     return name ? name : "Private";
diff --git a/src/xkbcomp/action.c b/src/xkbcomp/action.c
index f83c220..d0e18dd 100644
--- a/src/xkbcomp/action.c
+++ b/src/xkbcomp/action.c
@@ -748,7 +748,26 @@ HandlePrivate(struct xkb_keymap *keymap, union xkb_action *action,
             return false;
         }
 
-        act->type = (enum xkb_action_type) type;
+        /*
+         * It's possible for someone to write something like this:
+         *      actions = [ Private(type=3,data[0]=1,data[1]=3,data[2]=3) ]
+         * where the type refers to some existing action type, e.g. LockMods.
+         * This assumes that this action's struct is layed out in memory
+         * exactly as described in the XKB specification and libraries.
+         * We, however, have changed these structs in various ways, so this
+         * assumption is no longer true. Since this is a lousy "feature", we
+         * make actions like these no-ops for now.
+         */
+        if (type < ACTION_TYPE_PRIVATE) {
+            log_info(keymap->ctx,
+                     "Private actions of type %s are not supported; Ignored\n",
+                     ActionTypeText(type));
+            act->type = ACTION_TYPE_NONE;
+        }
+        else {
+            act->type = (enum xkb_action_type) type;
+        }
+
         return true;
     }
     else if (field == ACTION_FIELD_DATA) {