Bug#1142771: webkit2gtk: disable-nvidia-dmabuf.patch leaves backing store null, crashing WebKitGTK apps on NVIDIA

[Alberto Garcia]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2026 at 12:41:46PM +0000, Kyle W. Santiago wrote:
> The intent of the patch is to disable the hardware DMABuf transport,
> not the software one. Moving the check three lines down keeps
> SharedMemory, which is what the backing store needs, and puts NVIDIA
> on the same path as the existing WEBKIT_DMABUF_RENDERER_FORCE_SHM
> escape hatch immediately below it

I'm discussing this with upstream, I'll come back here as soon as I
have an answer.

Thanks for the report,

Berto