Review Request: Checking the return value of gps_open() as condition instead of checking m_gpsdata for prevent crash when no gpsd running

Aaron J. Seigo aseigo at kde.org
Thu Nov 3 07:38:34 UTC 2011


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Ship it!


Ship It!

- Aaron J. Seigo


On Nov. 3, 2011, 4:15 a.m., Max Lin wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 3, 2011, 4:15 a.m.)
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> Review request for Plasma.
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> Description
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> Checking the return value of gps_open() as condition instead of checking m_gpsdata for GPSD_API_MAJOR_VERSION >=5, there should be prevent crash occurred when no gpsd running. Since m_gpsdata is instanced, there will be always consider gpsd found when no gpsd running, there should be check return value of gps_open() is not -1.
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> This addresses bug 277036.
>     http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=277036
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> Diffs
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>   plasma/generic/dataengines/geolocation/location_gps.cpp 709321b 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103035/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Testing this patch with gpsd 2.96(GPSD_API_MAJOR_VERSION >=5) on trunk and openSUSE Factory, it works and some plasmoids(weather, weatherstation..) which with gpsd support are not crash anymore. However, unfortunately, I have no real gps device to test the function with gps device plugged, but I think this patch should be no broken somewhere with gps device plugged.
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> Thanks,
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> Max Lin
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