Re: [Alsa-devel] Slab corruptions & Re: 2.6.17-rc1: Oops in sound applications

[Jan Niehusmann <jan@gondor.com>]

On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 05:56:36PM +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote:
> At Tue, 4 Apr 2006 15:38:14 +0200,
> Jan Niehusmann wrote:
> > 
> > On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:01:08PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > 1. One line summary:
> > > 
> > >  On x86, sound applications oops when I refresh the browser.
> > 
> > I also see Oopses which seem to be sound related, although I did
> > not notice a correllation with the browser. The oopses below are from
> > 2.6.17-rc1 with additional ipw2200 patches (first one), and from a clean
> > 2.6.17 (second one). The -dirty suffix in the version numbers comes from
> > compiling with make-kpkg, not from actual changes to the source.
> 
> Could you try the patch below by OGAWA Hirofumi
> <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>?

That could be it - I remember having problems to access /dev/dsp prior
to the oops, and (without having read the code) it looks like the patch
is related to some error condition on open(). I'll try the patch.

Jan