> > > > I was digging through the gentoo bugzilla and found this:
> > > >
> > > >
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=141823
> > > >
> > > > As you see this bug is present since at least 2.6.17. I can reproduce
> > > > that here on my hardware with 2.6.24-rc8-mm1. All you need to do is install
> > > > mp3blaster on sparc64, run:
> > > >
> > > > $ mp3blaster some_mp3_file.mp3
> > > >
> > > > and stop it by pressing ctrl-c. It oopses when you stop it. It doesn't happen
> > > > every time but it'll oops in a few tries.
> > >
> > > This looks similar like a bug I fixed ago. Damn, it's still there.
> > >
> > > Could you build with CONFIG_SND_DEBUG=y ? It addas some sanity checks
> > > and might catch the fatal condition.
> >
> > Done. I don't think it changed much though :-/
>
> OK, could you try the patch below?