> > Because of the delayed fput in recent kernels, it is possible for plymouth to exit and not drop master right away. > It's put onto a workqueue to be freed slightly later. Xorg-server starts in the meantime, opens a fd, but because the fd > hasn't been closed by plymouth yet, it didn't get implicitly authenticated and it didn't get drm master either. > I thought plymouth explicitly dropped master, and closed later. I know we "ab"use that fact on Fedora so X can grab the bo from plymouth before it exits. Dave.
