Changeset 43343 in vbox for trunk/src/VBox/Additions

Timestamp:

Sep 18, 2012 11:16:50 AM (13 years ago)

Author:

vboxsync

svn:sync-xref-src-repo-rev:

80779

Message:

Additions/common/VBoxGuest: re-added housekeeping code to prevent crashes in the mouse polling code on older kernels.

File:

• trunk/src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxGuest/VBoxGuest-linux.c (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/src/VBox/Additions/common/VBoxGuest/VBoxGuest-linux.c

@@ -751 +751 @@
          pFilp, pFilp->private_data, RTProcSelf(), current->pid, current->comm));
 
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2, 6, 28)
+    /* This housekeeping was needed in older kernel versions to ensure that
+     * the file pointer didn't get left on the polling queue. */
+    vboxguestFAsync(-1, pFilp, 0);
+#endif
     VBoxGuestCloseSession(&g_DevExt, (PVBOXGUESTSESSION)pFilp->private_data);
     pFilp->private_data = NULL;