Re: [Gimp-print-devel] [Patch] gutenprint53+usb crashes with libusb-1.0.25

[Solomon P. <pi...@sh...>]

On Tue, Feb 22, 2022 at 07:55:18AM +0100, Zdenek Dohnal wrote:
> there were changes in libusb 1.0.25 which is in Fedora 36 - f.e. default USB
> context is not initialized unless you specifically pass NULL into
> `libusb_init()` - gutenprint53+usb backend actually depended on this hidden
> behavior, because it passes its own context address into `libusb_init()`
> instead of NULL. So the change causes the backend to crash if you run it:

Yikes!  

> According libusb maintainer, Ben Berg, the backend can work with the default
> USB context and he prepared the patch for it (the file is attached). I was
> able to verify the patch fixes the crash, but I don't have a device
> supported by gutenprint itself, so I couldn't do an additional sanity
> testing. The patch looks good to me though.

Will this work for multi-threaded stuff where there could conceivably be 
multiple contexts in use?  That's not being exercised in the current 
gutenprint code but some of the stuff I have cooking will change that.

> Would you mind adding the patch to the project if it looks good for you?

I won't be able to physically test any of this until this coming weekend 
(out of town and while I have remote access everything pertinent is 
turned off) but when I'm back, I'll be able to at least it doesn't 
introduce any regressions on F34 & F35.

 - Solomon
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