My gdb-fu isn't great - does the following help?
Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=dev@entry=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 audio/audio_template.h: No such file or directory. (gdb) print (*dev)->driver $1 = AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA (gdb) watch *0x7ffff161b6a0 Hardware watchpoint 4: *0x7ffff161b6a0 (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=dev@entry=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 in audio/audio_template.h (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=dev@entry=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 in audio/audio_template.h (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 1, qpa_audio_init (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/paaudio.c:831 831 audio/paaudio.c: No such file or directory. (gdb) cont Continuing. audio: warning: Using timer based audio emulation Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 audio/audio_template.h: No such file or directory. (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 in audio/audio_template.h (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 in audio/audio_template.h (gdb) p (*dev)->driver $2 = AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA (gdb) cont Continuing. [New Thread 0x7ffff09ff700 (LWP 6438)] [New Thread 0x7ffddcdff700 (LWP 6439)] Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Hardware watchpoint 4: *0x7ffff161b6a0 Old value = -486628296 New value = 0 0x00007ffff5422cf0 in __memset_avx2_unaligned_erms () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff5422cf0 in __memset_avx2_unaligned_erms () at /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff580cee3 in calloc () at /usr/lib64/libjemalloc.so.2 #2 0x00007ffff7ac9db1 in g_malloc0 () at /usr/lib64/libglib-2.0.so.0 #3 0x00007ffff7bc7cc9 in () at /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #4 0x00007ffff7bca8b8 in g_type_register_static () at /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #5 0x00007ffff7bca94d in g_type_register_static_simple () at /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 #6 0x00007ffff7040e3a in () at /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0 #7 0x00007ffff7043865 in gtk_icon_theme_get_type () at /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0 #8 0x00007ffff7043889 in gtk_icon_theme_new () at /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0 #9 0x00007ffff7043aa5 in gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen () at /usr/lib64/libgtk-3.so.0 #10 0x00000000007a0df3 in gtk_display_init (ds=<optimized out>, opts=0xfe7ae0 <dpy>) at ui/gtk.c:2200 #11 0x0000000000423dd8 in main (argc=<optimized out>, argv=<optimized out>, envp=<optimized out>) at vl.c:4532 (gdb) (gdb) cont Continuing. [Thread 0x7ffddcdff700 (LWP 6439) exited] Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Hardware watchpoint 4: *0x7ffff161b6a0 Old value = 0 New value = -245161264 0x00007ffff7bc7de1 in ?? () from /usr/lib64/libgobject-2.0.so.0 (gdb) cont Continuing. [New Thread 0x7ffddcdff700 (LWP 6507)] [New Thread 0x7ffddbbff700 (LWP 6508)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd85ff700 (LWP 6509)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd25ff700 (LWP 6510)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd1dfe700 (LWP 6511)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd15fd700 (LWP 6512)] [New Thread 0x7ffddaafa700 (LWP 6513)] [New Thread 0x7ffdce7ff700 (LWP 6514)] [New Thread 0x7ffdcdbff700 (LWP 6515)] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: guest updated active QH [Switching to Thread 0x7fffee9ff700 (LWP 6340)] Thread 5 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 304 in audio/audio_template.h (gdb) print (*dev)->driver $3 = 176 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of qemu- devel-ml, which is subscribed to QEMU. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1835466 Title: qemu 4.0.0 abort()s in audio_get_pdo_in (poisoned drv->driver?) Status in QEMU: New Bug description: After upgrading qemu from 3.0.0 to 4.0.0 (compiled from release tarball), I'm seeing a (reproducible) crash related to audio subsystem. I recompiled qemu with debugging options and got it to crash under gdb: Thread 6 "qemu-system-x86" received signal SIGABRT, Aborted. 0x00007ffff52e420b in raise () from /lib64/libc.so.6 (gdb) bt #0 0x00007ffff52e420b in raise () at /lib64/libc.so.6 #1 0x00007ffff52c6524 in abort () at /lib64/libc.so.6 #2 0x000000000041ec33 in audio_get_pdo_in (dev=<optimized out>) at audio/audio_template.h:328 #3 0x00000000005d0123 in AUD_open_in (card=0x7ffdde98dbc8, sw=0x7ffff17444e0, name=0x999d80 "adc", callback_opaque=callback_opaque@entry=0x7ffdde98fd58, callback_fn=0x610940 <hda_audio_input_cb>, as=as@entry=0x7ffdde98fd84) at audio/audio_template.h:434 #4 0x000000000060fe2e in hda_audio_setup (st=0x7ffdde98fd58) at hw/audio/hda-codec.c:490 #5 0x000000000061051b in hda_audio_command (hda=0x7ffdde98db40, nid=4, data=<optimized out>) at hw/audio/hda-codec.c:590 #6 0x000000000060ea20 in intel_hda_send_command (d=d@entry=0x7ffff0a2fc00, verb=verb@entry=4341777) at hw/audio/intel-hda.c:301 #7 0x000000000060ebbe in intel_hda_corb_run (d=<optimized out>) at hw/audio/intel-hda.c:336 #8 0x000000000060ebbe in intel_hda_corb_run (d=0x7ffff0a2fc00) at hw/audio/intel-hda.c:305 #9 0x0000000000495b99 in memory_region_write_accessor (mr=mr@entry=0x7ffff0a307a0, addr=72, value=value@entry=0x7fffeddfe568, size=size@entry=2, shift=<optimized out>, mask=mask@entry=65535, attrs=...) at memory.c:502 #10 0x000000000049448e in access_with_adjusted_size (addr=addr@entry=72, value=value@entry=0x7fffeddfe568, size=size@entry=2, access_size_min=<optimized out>, access_size_max=<optimized out>, access_fn=access_fn@entry=0x495b10 <memory_region_write_accessor>, mr=0x7ffff0a307a0, attrs=...) at memory.c:568 #11 0x00000000004974f3 in memory_region_dispatch_write (mr=mr@entry=0x7ffff0a307a0, addr=72, data=<optimized out>, size=2, attrs=attrs@entry=...) at memory.c:1496 #12 0x000000000042afbc in flatview_write_continue (fv=fv@entry=0x7ffdd36ef5c0, addr=addr@entry=4228186184, attrs=..., buf=buf@entry=0x7ffff66c7028 <incomplete sequence \311>, len=len@entry=2, addr1=<optimized out>, l=<optimized out>, mr=0x7ffff0a307a0) at exec.c:3279 #13 0x000000000042b1d6 in flatview_write (fv=0x7ffdd36ef5c0, addr=addr@entry=4228186184, attrs=attrs@entry=..., buf=buf@entry=0x7ffff66c7028 <incomplete sequence \311>, len=len@entry=2) at exec.c:3318 #14 0x000000000042e2a6 in address_space_write (as=0xfc5080 <address_space_memory>, addr=4228186184, attrs=..., buf=buf@entry=0x7ffff66c7028 <incomplete sequence \311>, len=2) at exec.c:3408 #15 0x000000000042e33a in address_space_rw (as=<optimized out>, addr=<optimized out>, attrs=..., attrs@entry=..., buf=buf@entry=0x7ffff66c7028 <incomplete sequence \311>, len=<optimized out>, is_write=<optimized out>) at exec.c:3419 #16 0x00000000004ac3c6 in kvm_cpu_exec (cpu=cpu@entry=0x7ffff0a81140) at accel/kvm/kvm-all.c:2034 #17 0x00000000004812ae in qemu_kvm_cpu_thread_fn (arg=0x7ffff0a81140) at cpus.c:1281 #18 0x00000000004812ae in qemu_kvm_cpu_thread_fn (arg=arg@entry=0x7ffff0a81140) at cpus.c:1254 #19 0x000000000089d0eb in qemu_thread_start (args=<optimized out>) at util/qemu-thread-posix.c:502 #20 0x00007ffff549319c in start_thread () at /lib64/libpthread.so.0 #21 0x00007ffff53ba4af in clone () at /lib64/libc.so.6 After some poking around, I think there's something overwriting dev->driver so this switch(dev->driver) statement falls through to abort(): https://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=blob;f=audio/audio_template.h;h=1232bb54db0e7073e60e3ccb72c1ed72cf5e3831;hb=131b9a05705636086699df15d4a6d328bb2585e8#l304 Here's why I think so: $ export QEMU_AUDIO_DRV=pa $ gdb /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 (gdb) b qpa_audio_init Breakpoint 1 at 0x79bcb0: file audio/paaudio.c, line 831. (gdb) b audio_get_pdo_in Breakpoint 2 at 0x5ce320: file audio/audio_template.h, line 304. (gdb) run -enable-kvm -cpu Nehalem -machine q35 -device intel-iommu -name Workstation -smp 4 -m 8G -soundhw hda -rtc base=localtime -drive file=workstation-disk0.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2 -drive file=workstation-disk1.qcow2,if=virtio,format=qcow2 -net nic,model=virtio,macaddr=aa:bb:cc:dd:ee:ff -net tap,ifname=tap42 -monitor telnet:127.0.0.1:7043,server,nowait -pidfile workstation.pid -vga qxl -global qxl-vga.vgamem_mb=64 -device usb-ehci,id=ehci -device usb-host,vendorid=0x1390,productid=0x5454,bus=ehci.0 -device usb-host,vendorid=0x054c,bus=ehci.0 -device usb-tablet -device nec-usb-xhci,id=xhci -device usb-host,vendorid=0x10c4,productid=0x888e,bus=xhci.0 Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 1, qpa_audio_init (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/paaudio.c:831 (gdb) p (*dev)->driver $1 = AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA (gdb) p/d AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA $2 = 5 (gdb) cont Continuing. [Thread 0x7ffff09ff700 (LWP 4078) exited] audio: warning: Using timer based audio emulation Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 (gdb) p (*dev)->driver $3 = AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 (gdb) p (*dev)->driver $4 = AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA (gdb) cont Continuing. Thread 1 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 (gdb) p (*dev)->driver $5 = AUDIODEV_DRIVER_PA (gdb) cont Continuing. [New Thread 0x7ffff09ff700 (LWP 4483)] [New Thread 0x7ffddcdff700 (LWP 4489)] [New Thread 0x7ffddbdff700 (LWP 4490)] [New Thread 0x7ffddb1ff700 (LWP 4491)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd2dff700 (LWP 4494)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd25fe700 (LWP 4495)] [New Thread 0x7ffdd1dfd700 (LWP 4497)] [New Thread 0x7ffdda5ff700 (LWP 4500)] [New Thread 0x7ffdcedff700 (LWP 4501)] qemu-system-x86_64: warning: guest updated active QH [Switching to Thread 0x7fffef7ff700 (LWP 4097)] Thread 4 "qemu-system-x86" hit Breakpoint 2, audio_get_pdo_in (dev=0x7ffff161b6a0) at audio/audio_template.h:304 (gdb) p (*dev)->driver $6 = 176 For what it's worth, guest is Fedora 29, host is a Slackware system with qemu compiled (manually) with these options: CFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" \ CXXFLAGS="-O2 -fPIC" \ ./configure \ --prefix=/usr --libdir=/usr/lib64 --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var \ --enable-gtk \ --enable-system \ --enable-kvm \ --enable-virtfs \ --enable-sdl \ --enable-gnutls \ --enable-curses \ --enable-virtfs \ --enable-curl \ --enable-linux-aio \ --enable-vhost-net \ --enable-spice \ --enable-libusb \ --enable-usb-redir \ --enable-lzo \ --enable-bzip2 \ --enable-libssh2 \ --enable-numa \ --enable-jemalloc \ --enable-opengl \ --audio-drv-list=alsa,oss,sdl,pa \ --enable-vnc --enable-vnc-sasl --enable-vnc-png --enable-vnc-jpeg \ --target-list=i386-softmmu,x86_64-softmmu,i386-linux-user,x86_64-linux-user,arm-softmmu,arm-linux-user,armeb-linux-user,sparc64-softmmu,sparc-softmmu,sparc32plus-linux-user,sparc64-linux-user \ --enable-debug --extra-cflags="-g3" --extra-ldflags="-g3" --disable-strip --disable-pie # For debugging only To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu/+bug/1835466/+subscriptions