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From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Geoffrey McRae <geoff@hostfission.com>
Cc: Christian Schoenebeck <qemu_oss@crudebyte.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 1/1] audio/jack: fix use after free segfault
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2020 15:13:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49a9b5f5-d1df-b6fb-d238-7c9e8d2aeb6c@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a165417b4d27c7fbce404e81f6c38cda@hostfission.com>

On 21/08/20 13:28, Geoffrey McRae wrote:
> 
>> My suggestion is to work towards protecting the audio code with its own
>> mutex(es) and ignore the existence of the BQL for subsystems that can do
>> so (audio is a prime candidate).  Also please add comments to
>> audio_int.h about which functions are called from other threads than the
>> QEMU main thread.
> 
> Ok, so to get back on topic, what exactly is the best way forward to fix
> this issue in this patchset? Should I be managing a local mutex instead?

I think adding a local mutex for audio stuff would be best, if it's not
too hard.

Paolo



      reply	other threads:[~2020-08-21 13:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-08-19  6:29 [PATCH v5 0/1] audio/jack: fix use after free segfault Geoffrey McRae
2020-08-19  6:29 ` [PATCH v5 1/1] " Geoffrey McRae
2020-08-19 15:21   ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-19 15:27     ` Geoffrey McRae
2020-08-20  5:37     ` Gerd Hoffmann
2020-08-20 10:06       ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-20 10:54         ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-20 12:00           ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-21 13:13             ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-26 13:48               ` PTHREAD_MUTEX_ERRORCHECK and fork() Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-21 11:12           ` recursive locks (in general) Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-21 13:08             ` Paolo Bonzini
2020-08-21 15:25               ` Christian Schoenebeck
2020-08-21 11:28           ` [PATCH v5 1/1] audio/jack: fix use after free segfault Geoffrey McRae
2020-08-21 13:13             ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]

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