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was: Re: A reliable kernel panic (3.6.2) and system crash when visiting a particular website

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Daniel Mack Oct. 21, 2012, 2:21 p.m. UTC
[Cc: alsa-devel]

On 21.10.2012 14:30, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> On Oct 21, 2012, Daniel Mack wrote: 
> 
>> A hint at least. How did you enable the audio record exactly? Can you
>> reproduce this with arecord?
>>
>> What chipset are you on? Please provide both "lspci -v" and "lsusb -v"
>> dumps. As I said, I fail to reproduce that issue on any of my machines.
> 
> All other applications can read from the USB audio without problems, it's
> just something in the way Adobe Flash polls my audio input which causes
> a crash.
> 
> Just video capture (without audio) works just fine in Adobe Flash.

Ok, so that pretty much rules out the host controller. I just wonder why
I still don't see it here, and I haven't heard of any such problem from
anyone else.

Some more questions:

- Which version of Flash are you running?
- Does this also happen with Firefox?
- Does flash access the device directly or via PulseAudio?
- Could you please apply the attached patch and see what it spits out to
dmesg once Flash opens the device? It returns -EINVAL in the hw_params
callback to prevent the actual streaming. On my machine with Flash
11.4.31.110, I get values of 2/44800/1/32768/2048/0, which seems sane.
Or does your machine still crash before anything is written to the logs?

> Only and only when I choose to use 
> 
> USB Device 0x46d:0x81d my system crashes in Adobe Flash.
>
> See the screenshot:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=84151

When exactly does the crash happen? Right after you selected that entry
from the list? There's a little recording level meter in that dialog.
Does that show any input from the microphone?

> My hardware information can be fetched from here:
> 
> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49181
> 
> On a second thought that can be even an ALSA crash or pretty much
> anything else.

We'll see. Thanks for your help to sort this out!


Daniel

Comments

Artem S. Tashkinov Oct. 21, 2012, 2:57 p.m. UTC | #1
> On Oct 21, 2012, Daniel Mack  wrote: 
> 
> [Cc: alsa-devel]
> 
> On 21.10.2012 14:30, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
> > On Oct 21, 2012, Daniel Mack wrote: 
> > 
> >> A hint at least. How did you enable the audio record exactly? Can you
> >> reproduce this with arecord?
> >>
> >> What chipset are you on? Please provide both "lspci -v" and "lsusb -v"
> >> dumps. As I said, I fail to reproduce that issue on any of my machines.
> > 
> > All other applications can read from the USB audio without problems, it's
> > just something in the way Adobe Flash polls my audio input which causes
> > a crash.
> > 
> > Just video capture (without audio) works just fine in Adobe Flash.
> 
> Ok, so that pretty much rules out the host controller. I just wonder why
> I still don't see it here, and I haven't heard of any such problem from
> anyone else.
> 
> Some more questions:
> 
> - Which version of Flash are you running?

Google Chrome has its own version of Adobe Flash:

Name:	Shockwave Flash
Description:	Shockwave Flash 11.4 r31
Version:	11.4.31.110

> - Does this also happen with Firefox?

No, Adobe Flash in Firefox is an older version (Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102), it shows
just two input devices instead of three which the newer Flash players sees.

* HDA Intel PCH
* USB Device 0x46d:0x81d

> - Does flash access the device directly or via PulseAudio?

PA is not installed on my computer, so Flash accesses it directly via ALSA calls.

> - Could you please apply the attached patch and see what it spits out to
> dmesg once Flash opens the device? It returns -EINVAL in the hw_params
> callback to prevent the actual streaming. On my machine with Flash
> 11.4.31.110, I get values of 2/44800/1/32768/2048/0, which seems sane.
> Or does your machine still crash before anything is written to the logs?

I will try it a bit later.

> > Only and only when I choose to use 
> > 
> > USB Device 0x46d:0x81d my system crashes in Adobe Flash.
> >
> > See the screenshot:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=84151
> 
> When exactly does the crash happen? Right after you selected that entry
> from the list? There's a little recording level meter in that dialog.
> Does that show any input from the microphone?

Yes, right after I select it and move the mouse cursor away from this combobox
so that this selection becomes active.

> > My hardware information can be fetched from here:
> > 
> > https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=49181
> > 
> > On a second thought that can be even an ALSA crash or pretty much
> > anything else.
> 
> We'll see. Thanks for your help to sort this out!

Thank you for your assistance!
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Daniel Mack Oct. 21, 2012, 3:22 p.m. UTC | #2
On 21.10.2012 16:57, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
>> On Oct 21, 2012, Daniel Mack  wrote: 
>>
>> [Cc: alsa-devel]
>>
>> On 21.10.2012 14:30, Artem S. Tashkinov wrote:
>>> On Oct 21, 2012, Daniel Mack wrote: 
>>>
>>>> A hint at least. How did you enable the audio record exactly? Can you
>>>> reproduce this with arecord?
>>>>
>>>> What chipset are you on? Please provide both "lspci -v" and "lsusb -v"
>>>> dumps. As I said, I fail to reproduce that issue on any of my machines.
>>>
>>> All other applications can read from the USB audio without problems, it's
>>> just something in the way Adobe Flash polls my audio input which causes
>>> a crash.
>>>
>>> Just video capture (without audio) works just fine in Adobe Flash.
>>
>> Ok, so that pretty much rules out the host controller. I just wonder why
>> I still don't see it here, and I haven't heard of any such problem from
>> anyone else.
>>
>> Some more questions:
>>
>> - Which version of Flash are you running?
> 
> Google Chrome has its own version of Adobe Flash:
> 
> Name:	Shockwave Flash
> Description:	Shockwave Flash 11.4 r31
> Version:	11.4.31.110

So that's the same that I'm using.

>> - Does this also happen with Firefox?
> 
> No, Adobe Flash in Firefox is an older version (Shockwave Flash 11.1 r102), it shows
> just two input devices instead of three which the newer Flash players sees.
> 
> * HDA Intel PCH
> * USB Device 0x46d:0x81d

And that works, I assume? Does the second choice in the newer Flash
version work maybe?

>> - Does flash access the device directly or via PulseAudio?
> 
> PA is not installed on my computer, so Flash accesses it directly via ALSA calls.

Ok, Same here.

>> - Could you please apply the attached patch and see what it spits out to
>> dmesg once Flash opens the device? It returns -EINVAL in the hw_params
>> callback to prevent the actual streaming. On my machine with Flash
>> 11.4.31.110, I get values of 2/44800/1/32768/2048/0, which seems sane.
>> Or does your machine still crash before anything is written to the logs?
> 
> I will try it a bit later.

Yes, we need to trace the call chain and see at which point the trouble
starts. What could help is tracing the google-chrome binary with strace
maybe. At least we would see the ioctl command sequence, if the log file
survives the crash.

As the usb list is still in Cc: - Artem's lcpci dump shows that his
machine features XHCI controllers. Can anyone think of a relation to
this problem?

And Artem, is there any way you boot your system on an older machine
that only has EHCI ports? Thinking about it, I wonder whether the freeze
in VBox and the crashes on native hardware have the same root cause. In
that case, would it be possible to share that VBox image?


Daniel

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Alan Stern Oct. 21, 2012, 3:28 p.m. UTC | #3
On Sun, 21 Oct 2012, Daniel Mack wrote:

> As the usb list is still in Cc: - Artem's lcpci dump shows that his
> machine features XHCI controllers. Can anyone think of a relation to
> this problem?
> 
> And Artem, is there any way you boot your system on an older machine
> that only has EHCI ports? Thinking about it, I wonder whether the freeze
> in VBox and the crashes on native hardware have the same root cause. In
> that case, would it be possible to share that VBox image?

Don't grasp at straws.  All of the kernel logs Artem has posted show 
ehci-hcd; none of them show xhci-hcd.  Therefore the xHCI controller is 
highly unlikely to be involved.

Alan Stern

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Patch

diff --git a/sound/usb/pcm.c b/sound/usb/pcm.c
index f782ce1..5664b45 100644
--- a/sound/usb/pcm.c
+++ b/sound/usb/pcm.c
@@ -453,6 +453,18 @@  static int snd_usb_hw_params(struct snd_pcm_substream *substream,
 	unsigned int channels, rate, format;
 	int ret, changed;
 
+
+	printk(">>> %s()\n", __func__);
+
+	printk("format: %d\n", params_format(hw_params));
+	printk("rate: %d\n", params_rate(hw_params));
+	printk("channels: %d\n", params_channels(hw_params));
+	printk("buffer bytes: %d\n", params_buffer_bytes(hw_params));
+	printk("period bytes: %d\n", params_period_bytes(hw_params));
+	printk("access: %d\n", params_access(hw_params));
+
+	return -EINVAL;
+
 	ret = snd_pcm_lib_alloc_vmalloc_buffer(substream,
 					       params_buffer_bytes(hw_params));
 	if (ret < 0)