[alsa-devel] [BUG] sound: pci: trident: a possible data race

[Takashi Iwai]

On Thu, 04 Oct 2018 05:08:45 +0200,
Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> 
> Thanks for the reply :)
> 
> 
> On 2018/10/3 23:54, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> > On Wed, 03 Oct 2018 14:50:25 +0200,
> > Jia-Ju Bai wrote:
> >> CPU0:
> >> snd_trident_hw_free
> >>      snd_trident_free_voice
> >>              line 3870: spin_lock_irqsave()
> >>              line 3881: voice->substream = NULL; [WRITE]
> >> CPU1:
> >> snd_trident_interrupt
> >>      line 3798: snd_pcm_period_elapsed(voice->substream);  [READ]
> >>
> >> As for voice->substream, the WRITE operation in CPU0 is performed
> >> with holding a spinlock, but the READ operation in CPU1 is performed
> >> without holding this spinlock, so there may exist a data race.
> > Thanks for the report.
> >
> > The actual crash must be very unlikely, almost 0%, though.
> > snd_trident_hw_free() is called always after the PCM stream gets
> > stopped via trigger callback, i.e. at the moment, there is no
> > corresponding interrupt is generated for that voice entry.
> 
> How about the case that playback and capture are performed concurrently?
> Namely, snd_trident_hw_free() is called for playback, and the
> interrupt is generated for capture.

They are different substreams, hence it won't pick up the substream
object.

> > And the hardware is very old, I bet only a handful people still using
> > in the whole world :)
> 
> I have this hardware, so I am the one of these handful people ;)

Wow, that's fun.  Then we can really fix the issue, if any.
Did you actually hit any relevant bug?


thanks,

Takashi