Package: libxi
Version: 1.6.1-1+deb7u2

After updating the above package (from deb7u1), various applications
(google-chrome-stable notably) begin to crash with messages indicating an
attempt to free an invalid pointer.  Upon looking into the issue further, I
noticed that the following addition to XIQueryDevice.c is flawed:

@@ -103,7 +130,17 @@
    SyncHandle();
    return info;

+error_loop:
+    while (--i >= 0)
+    {
+        Xfree(info[i].name);
+        Xfree(info[i].classes);
+    }
error:
+    Xfree(info);
+    Xfree(buf);
      UnlockDisplay(dpy);
      SyncHandle();

There are 3 places that "goto error", two before info and buf are
allocated, and one after we've checked and found one (or both) to be NULL.
Moving those Xfree()s up a couple of lines into error_loop (where we know
they are already allocated) fixes the problem.

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