Running gnome-shell under valgrind, I saw the attached invalid write.
Basically we can destroy a window during event processing, and the old
window_remove_filters simply called g_free() on the filter, ignoring
the refcount. Then later in event processing we call filter->refcount--,
which is writing to free()d memory.
Fix this by centralizing list mutation and refcount handling inside
a new shared _gdk_window_filter_unref() function, and using that
everywhere.
==13876== Invalid write of size 4
==13876== at 0x446B181: gdk_event_apply_filters (gdkeventsource.c:86)
==13876== by 0x446B411: _gdk_events_queue (gdkeventsource.c:188)
==13876== by 0x44437EF: gdk_display_get_event (gdkdisplay.c:410)
==13876== by 0x446B009: gdk_event_source_dispatch (gdkeventsource.c:317)
==13876== by 0x4AB7159: g_main_context_dispatch (gmain.c:2436)
==13876== by 0x4AB7957: g_main_context_iterate.clone.5 (gmain.c:3087)
==13876== by 0x4AB806A: g_main_loop_run (gmain.c:3295)
==13876== by 0x8084D6B: main (main.c:722)
==13876== Address 0x1658bcac is 12 bytes inside a block of size 16 free'd
==13876== at 0x4005EAD: free (vg_replace_malloc.c:366)
==13876== by 0x4ABE515: g_free (gmem.c:263)
==13876== by 0x444BCC9: window_remove_filters (gdkwindow.c:1873)
==13876== by 0x4454BA3: _gdk_window_destroy_hierarchy (gdkwindow.c:2043)
==13876== by 0x447BF6E: gdk_window_destroy_notify (gdkwindow-x11.c:1115)
==13876== by 0x43588E2: _gtk_socket_windowing_filter_func (gtksocket-x11.c:518)
==13876== by 0x446B170: gdk_event_apply_filters (gdkeventsource.c:79)
==13876== by 0x446B411: _gdk_events_queue (gdkeventsource.c:188)
==13876== by 0x44437EF: gdk_display_get_event (gdkdisplay.c:410)
==13876== by 0x446B009: gdk_event_source_dispatch (gdkeventsource.c:317)
==13876== by 0x4AB7159: g_main_context_dispatch (gmain.c:2436)
==13876== by 0x4AB7957: g_main_context_iterate.clone.5 (gmain.c:3087)
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=637464
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