On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 01:40:06AM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 03:30:13PM -0700, Steve Sakoman wrote:
> > > Hmm, so the crash is actually somewhere else. Could you disable debug
> > > and get the NULL pointer dereference at the right point ?
> >
> > The output is below. The crash seems to occur at the substream
> > pointer dereference in the second line of snd_pcm_info (in
> > pcm_native.c):
> >
> > struct snd_pcm *pcm = substream->pcm;
>
> yeah, at that point substream was NULL. I'm trying to trace the function
> call to see why substream is getting NULLed.
>
> I think the following patch is anyway a good thing to apply:
>
> diff --git a/sound/core/pcm_native.c b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
> index c49b9d9..c7c15cf 100644
> --- a/sound/core/pcm_native.c
> +++ b/sound/core/pcm_native.c
> @@ -92,10 +92,11 @@ static inline void snd_leave_user(mm_segment_t fs)
> int snd_pcm_info(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream, struct snd_pcm_info
> *info)
> {
> struct snd_pcm_runtime *runtime;
> - struct snd_pcm *pcm = substream->pcm;
> + struct snd_pcm *pcm;
> struct snd_pcm_str *pstr = substream->pstr;
>
> snd_assert(substream != NULL, return -ENXIO);
> + pcm = substream->pcm;
> memset(info, 0, sizeof(*info));
> info->card = pcm->card->number;
> info->device = pcm->device;
can you also apply this other patch:
diff --git a/sound/core/pcm.c b/sound/core/pcm.c
index 9dd9bc7..b8f43f3 100644
--- a/sound/core/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/core/pcm.c
@@ -774,7 +774,7 @@ int snd_pcm_attach_substream(struct snd_pcm *pcm, int
stream,
size_t size;
snd_assert(rsubstream != NULL, return -EINVAL);
- *rsubstream = NULL;
+// *rsubstream = NULL; why NULL it ?? need to investigate more
snd_assert(pcm != NULL, return -ENXIO);
pstr = &pcm->streams[stream];
if (pstr->substream == NULL || pstr->substream_count == 0)
@@ -795,8 +795,11 @@ int snd_pcm_attach_substream(struct snd_pcm *pcm, int
stream,
case SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_PLAYBACK:
if (pcm->info_flags & SNDRV_PCM_INFO_HALF_DUPLEX) {
for (substream =
pcm->streams[SNDRV_PCM_STREAM_CAPTURE].substream; substream; substream =
substream->
- if (SUBSTREAM_BUSY(substream))
+ if (!substream)
return -EAGAIN;
+
+ if (SUBSTREAM_BUSY(substream))
+ continue;
}
}
break;
@@ -875,6 +878,10 @@ int snd_pcm_attach_substream(struct snd_pcm *pcm, int
stream,
substream->ref_count = 1;
substream->f_flags = file->f_flags;
pstr->substream_opened++;
+
+ if (!substream)
+ printk(KERN_INFO "substream is NULL\n");
+
*rsubstream = substream;
return 0;
}
--
balbi
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