Chromium GPU sandbox can cause graphics driver crashes on Linux

tlu · Oct 2, 2014

http://keithp.com/blogs/chromium-dri3/

Keith Packard, a long-time X11 developer with Intel, writes that the Chromium GPU sandbox has problems with DRI3.

I looked briefly at the Chromium sandbox code. It looks like it needs to know intimate details of the OpenGL implementation for every possible driver it runs on; it seems to contain a fixed list of all possible files and modes that the driver will pass to open(2). That seems incredibly fragile to me, especially when used in a general Linux desktop environment. Minor changes in how the GL driver operates can easily cause the browser to stop working.
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I'm curious about the reaction of the Chromium developers.

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