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In fcfe90aa, multiple for loops were replaced with META_WAYLAND_SURFACE_FOREACH_SUBSURFACE. However, this substitution was not side-effect free, and introduced a null-pointer dereference risk as shown in the example below: Old: for (n = g_node_first_child (surface->subsurface_branch_node); n; n = g_node_next_sibling (n)) { if (G_NODE_IS_LEAF (n)) continue; meta_wayland_surface_update_outputs_recursively (n->data); } n is checked for NULL during each loop in the condition expression. Therefore, when `G_NODE_IS_LEAF (n)` is called, `n` is guaranteed not to be NULL. Note also that g_node_first_child is also NULL-safe since it performs a NULL check internally. New: META_WAYLAND_SURFACE_FOREACH_SUBSURFACE (surface, subsurface_surface) meta_wayland_surface_update_outputs_recursively (subsurface_surface); = for (GNode *G_PASTE(__n, __LINE__) = meta_get_first_subsurface_node ((surface)); \ (subsurface = (G_PASTE (__n, __LINE__) ? G_PASTE (__n, __LINE__)->data : NULL)); \ G_PASTE (__n, __LINE__) = meta_get_next_subsurface_sibling (G_PASTE (__n, __LINE__))) In the new logic `subsurface` is still checked for NULL in the loop condition. However, in the new loop init: ... meta_get_first_subsurface_node (MetaWaylandSurface *surface) ... n = g_node_first_child (surface->subsurface_branch_node); if (!G_NODE_IS_LEAF (n)) ... The above implementation performs a `G_NODE_IS_LEAF` call, which performs a dereference on `n`, without first checking for NULLs. This NULL dereference triggers the following gnome-shell crash: Core was generated by `/usr/bin/gnome-shell'. Program terminated with signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault. #0 meta_get_first_subsurface_node (surface=0x55d589623450) at ../src/wayland/meta-wayland-surface.h:399 #1 pointer_can_grab_surface (pointer=0x7f6dc4012700, surface=0x55d589623450) at ../src/wayland/meta-wayland-pointer.c:1306 #2 0x00007f6ddb94d509 in meta_wayland_pointer_can_grab_surface (pointer=<optimized out>, surface=surface@entry=0x55d589623450, serial=serial@entry=996) at ../src/wayland/meta-wayland-pointer.c:1321 #3 0x00007f6ddb950d05 in meta_wayland_seat_get_grab_info (seat=seat@entry=0x55d586c24f20, surface=0x55d589623450, serial=996, require_pressed=require_pressed@entry=0, x=x@entry=0x0, y=y@entry=0x0) at ../src/wayland/meta-wayland-seat.c:467 Part-of: <https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/mutter/-/merge_requests/2655>