https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=87568
Bug ID: 87568 Summary: WebGL can cause GPU reset Product: Mesa Version: 10.3 Hardware: Other OS: All Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: medium Component: Drivers/Gallium/r600 Assignee: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Reporter: aaalmosss@gmail.com
I was given this link: http://hunger.hu/webgl.html which was supposed to crash any video driver, and it really did a hiccup. Fortunately, after 1 second the kernel detected GPU lockup, and reinitialized everything just fine.
As far as I can tell that javascript doesn't do anything sinister, just tries to render 200k triangles with a single glDrawElements() call. Shouldn't there be a protection against such simple overflows somewhere?