[pulseaudio-discuss] [PATCH] Fix crash on jack server shutdown

[Lennart Poettering]

On Sun, 14.03.10 20:50, David Henningsson (launchpad.web at epost.diwic.se) wrote:

> On sink unlinking, existing sink inputs are moved, which in turn calls
> a get latency callback, which references the jack client. Therefore,
> make sure the sink is unlinked before the client is closed. Failure to
> do so might lead to SIGSEGV.
> 
> This patch simply moves the call to pa_sink_unlink above
> jack_client_close, which fixes the problem.

Uh. I don't think this really fixes the problem. This just moves things
around and replaces one race by another. 

The old race: the PA IO loop might end up calling into libjack with an
invalid jack client context after the context got destructed but the PA
sink didn't get shutdown yet.

The new race: the jack IO loop might end up calling (and blocking) into
PA code when the PA sink is unlinked (though not yet destructed) but the
jack code is not yet.

What is missing is that the jack loop does not depend on the PA sink to
be around resp. the PA IO loop doesn't call into jack when it is
dead. If either of that is implemented (and then destruction order
matches this) the problem is fixed.

Also, what applies to m-jack-sink needs fixing in m-jack-source, too.

Lennart

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