chMBPostTimeout: chSysHalt unsuspending timeouted reader thread

[eee]

Using Chibios/RT 19.1.2.
One thread is doing

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chMBPostTimeout(&this->m_auxmsg_mbox, (msg_t)msg, TIME_IMMEDIATE);

(n.b: msg is a pointer to a message allocated from a memory pool)

Another thread is blocking on the mailbox:

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auto result = chMBFetchTimeout(&this->m_auxmsg_mbox, (msg_t *) &m, TIME_MS2I(10));

If the timeout occurs before the post, the post causes a chSysHalt via chThdDoDequeueNextI, specifically due to the line

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chDbgAssert(tp->state == CH_STATE_QUEUED, "invalid state");

However, if the timeout is [font=Courier New]TIME_IMMEDIATE[/font], the crash doesn't occur.

I should also note that even if the timeout is raised above the amount of time the posting thread takes, the message never comes through.

Am I somehow misusing message-boxes entirely? Any idea what's going on?

[Giovanni]

Hi,

It is not very clear to me, could you check tp->state when the assertion occurs? please also get the stack trace at the assertion point.

Giovanni