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Subject: Re: [BUG] sound: pci: trident: a possible data race
To:     Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
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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.

> 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 ;)


Best wishes,
Jia-Ju Bai