pulseaudio crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

Bug #437293 reported by Thomas Karl Pietrowski
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This bug affects 8 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
pulseaudio (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Daniel T Chen

Bug Description

Binary package hint: pulseaudio

Happend when switching a stream between one Bluetooth headset to a analog output and then back to another bluetooth headset.

No problems at all just this crash :/

ProblemType: Crash
.etc.asound.conf:
 pcm.604 {
    type bluetooth
    device 00:0D:3C:B0:67:51
 }
Architecture: amd64
AudioDevicesInUse: Error: command ['fuser', '-v', '/dev/dsp', '/dev/dsp1', '/dev/snd/controlC0', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D3p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D2c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0p', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D0c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1c', '/dev/snd/pcmC0D1p', '/dev/snd/by-path', '/dev/snd/by-id', '/dev/snd/controlC1', '/dev/snd/pcmC1D0c', '/dev/snd/seq', '/dev/snd/timer', '/dev/sequencer2', '/dev/sequencer'] failed with exit code 1:
Card0.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:0 'NVidia'/'HDA NVidia at 0xfaf78000 irq 21'
   Mixer name : 'Nvidia MCP78 HDMI'
   Components : 'HDA:10ec0888,104382fe,00100101 HDA:10de0002,10de0101,00100000'
   Controls : 44
   Simple ctrls : 23
Card1.Amixer.info:
 Card hw:1 'camera'/'USB camera at usb-0000:00:04.0-2, full speed'
   Mixer name : 'USB Mixer'
   Components : 'USB0c45:60b0'
   Controls : 0
   Simple ctrls : 0
Card1.Amixer.values:

Date: Sat Sep 26 19:31:25 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/pulseaudio
NonfreeKernelModules: nvidia
Package: pulseaudio 1:0.9.18-0ubuntu3
ProcCmdline: /usr/bin/pulseaudio --start --log-target=syslog
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=de_DE.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/false
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-11.36-generic
SegvAnalysis:
 Segfault happened at: 0x7f57e3245e20 <strcmp>: mov (%rdi),%al
 PC (0x7f57e3245e20) ok
 source "(%rdi)" (0x00000000) not located in a known VMA region (needed readable region)!
 destination "%al" ok
SegvReason: reading NULL VMA
Signal: 11
SourcePackage: pulseaudio
StacktraceTop:
 strcmp () from /lib/libc.so.6
 module_bluetooth_device_LTX_pa__init ()
 pa_module_load ()
 ?? ()
 pa_hook_fire () from /usr/lib/libpulsecore-0.9.18.so
Title: pulseaudio crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-11-generic x86_64
UserGroups:

mtime.conffile..etc.pulse.default.pa: 2009-09-26T17:08:57.840512

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Thomas Karl Pietrowski (thopiekar) wrote :
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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : Stacktrace.txt (retraced)

StacktraceTop:strcmp () at ../sysdeps/x86_64/strcmp.S:29
module_bluetooth_device_LTX_pa__init (m=0x1746bf0)
pa_module_load (c=0x170d550,
load_module_for_device (y=<value optimized out>,
pa_hook_fire (hook=0x1736d28, data=0x1727160)

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Apport retracing service (apport) wrote : ThreadStacktrace.txt (retraced)
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
importance: Undecided → Medium
tags: removed: need-amd64-retrace
Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: New → Fix Committed
visibility: private → public
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Steven Walter (stevenrwalter) wrote :

Crash is no longer present in ubuntu-audio-dev PPA

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Trooper (webmaster-trooper) wrote :

It happened when I switched on my cell phone's (Sony Ericsson K770i) bluetooth. I didn't do anything more. As a result, it looked like my cell phone tried to connect to my notebook to use it as a headset. I was asked for the usual PIN code pairing, first entering it into my cell phone and then into the popup dialog on the PC, and then the crash happened.

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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote : Re: [Bug 437293] Re: pulseaudio crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()

Trooper, can you reproduce the crash using the ubuntu-audio-dev PPA?

On Oct 9, 2009 10:20 AM, "Trooper" <email address hidden> wrote:

It happened when I switched on my cell phone's (Sony Ericsson K770i)
bluetooth. I didn't do anything more. As a result, it looked like my
cell phone tried to connect to my notebook to use it as a headset. I was
asked for the usual PIN code pairing, first entering it into my cell
phone and then into the popup dialog on the PC, and then the crash
happened.

-- pulseaudio crashed with SIGSEGV in strcmp()
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/437293 You received...

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.19-0ubuntu1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:0.9.19-0ubuntu1) karmic; urgency=low

  * New upstream bugfix release
  * debian/:
    . {libpulse0,pulseaudio}.shlibs:
    . shlibs{,_pulseaudio}.local:
    . rules: Update for new release
  * debian
    + pulseaudio.dirs:
    . patches/0006-a11y-special-case-disable.patch:
    . pulse-session: Use a system-wide flag to assist in fixing
      alsactl store race.
  * debian/patches/:
    - 0060-backport-c194d.patch: Drop, subsumed by new release
    + 0053-fix-sigsegv-module-bluetooth-device.patch: Don't strcmp
      uninitialized memory (LP: #437293)
    + 0055-backport-alsa-bt-position-fixes-b3592a1.patch: Apply the
      following changesets from origin/master HEAD for fixes:
      40c1ca76c48147c7648e1f1a72cc2c747f3d0c9b,
      7b682c969025845f75cbc74a9f830ad2dec8a415,
      c96d2d1117a7e59b351358c8cdd79ef465ddbd49,
      b3592a160f0d2a28605048a81c0261bf7c45acbb
    + 0091-dont-load-cork-music-on-phone.patch: Disable for Karmic;
      it's confusing users (LP: #437638)
  * Previous uploads resolved Launchpad bug reports:
    - LP: #434003 (crashed with SIGILL in pa_smoother_translate() )
    - LP: #437638 (cpulimit.c: Received request to terminate)

 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Tue, 06 Oct 2009 18:40:38 -0400

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

Sorry for the crackful "fix" the first go-round. A saner check has been submitted, and once it is signed off, it will appear in some fashion in a pulseaudio update.

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Fix Released → Triaged
assignee: nobody → Daniel T Chen (crimsun)
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Daniel T Chen (crimsun) wrote :

06:00 < dtchen> pitti: ok. firstly, it does the wrong thing with
                pa_sprintf_malloc(), including using the wrong parameter:
                address instead of d->address
06:01 < pitti> ah, so it even causes crashes/corruption?
06:01 < dtchen> pitti: secondly, in the case that d->address is bad (in this
                case it is; see the original report), even if we had
                _malloc()ed d->address, it'd still do the wrong thing
06:02 < dtchen> pitti: right, potentially it'd do even worse things
06:02 < pitti> dtchen: would you mind posting that to the original bug report,
               or adding a new one? to have a papertrail of the change?
06:02 < pitti> then it looks fine to me
06:03 < dtchen> pitti: so Lennart and I are discussing how to verify that the
                BT audio device is fully set up; it probably won't land for
                Karmic but hopefully for -updates
06:03 < dtchen> pitti: yes, I'll update the original bug report

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package pulseaudio - 1:0.9.20-0ubuntu1

---------------
pulseaudio (1:0.9.20-0ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low

  * New upstream bugfix release
    + Fix BT validation (LP: #437293)
  * debian/control:
    + pulseaudio Provides pulseaudio-module-hal, pulseaudio-module-udev,
      and pulseaudio-module-rygel-media-server for upgrades (really
      fixes LP #477382)
  * debian/patches/:
    - 0002-work-around-suspend-on-idle-source-sink-race.patch:
    - 0052-revert-sse2-optimize.patch:
    - 0055-backport-alsa-bt-position-fixes-b3592a1.patch:
      Remove; applied upstream
    + 0054-mute-iec958-optical-raw-for-audigyX.patch: Refresh
    + 0055-handle-Master-Front.patch: For new VIA-based HDA, handle
      this mixer control until we've fixed it in linux (LP: #478868)
  * Bump for 0.9.20:
    + debian/libpulse0.shlibs
    + debian/pulseaudio.shlibs
    + debian/rules
 -- Daniel T Chen <email address hidden> Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:19:21 -0500

Changed in pulseaudio (Ubuntu):
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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