There were two main issues:
The mix matrix was not protected with the object lock
The code was mistakenly assuming that after updating the mix matrix
a reconfigure event sent upstream would be enough to cause upstream to
send caps again, and the converter was only reconstructed in ->set_caps.
That was not actually enough, as if the new matrix didn't affect the
number of input / output channels there was no reason for upstream to do
anything after getting the unchanged caps.
The fix for this was to have ->transform also recreate the converter
when needed, with the added subtlety that depending on the mix matrix
the element could be set to passthrough. This means that when setting
the mix matrix the converter also had to be recreated immediately to
check if the element had to be switched back to non-passthrough.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/7363>
gst-launch-1.0 audiotestsrc ! udpsink host=127.0.0.1
gst-launch-1.0 udpsrc ! audioconvert ! autoaudiosink
would crash with a floating point exception when clipping the input
buffer owing to a division by zero because no caps event was received.
Part-of: <https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/gstreamer/gstreamer/-/merge_requests/3469>