Attached is a test case that crashes due to what looks like a race condition in QFontEngineFT::init(..).

There is a number of things that are present in order for this crash to happen:

• The "label" Text element needs to have an HTML tag at the end (in this case, <tt>)
• The "codeLine" Text element needs to have the FontLoader included
• The model is populated asynchronously when we set the "code" property on it (the timer in CodeModel emulates the original application, where we pass the code through a webview)

The interval on the timer in CodeModel.cpp might need to be modified in order to have it crash. For me, it crashes with an interval between 0 and 45 ms.

It crashes both with 5.3.0-beta as well as with the stable git branch. The original application also crashes with 5.2.1, although I do not get the test application to do that.

It does no longer crash if I set the environment variable QSG_RENDER_LOOP to "basic".

Backtrace (with git stable from May 5th):
0 main_arena /lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libc.so.6 0x7ffff59a5d48
1 FT_Get_PS_Font_Info /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libfreetype.so.6 0x7fffefaec83d
2 QFontEngineFT::init qfontengine_ft.cpp 705 0x7ffff187d715
3 QFontEngineFT::init qfontengine_ft.cpp 680 0x7ffff187d5b4
4 QFontconfigDatabase::fontEngine qfontconfigdatabase.cpp 652 0x7ffff1888613
5 loadSingleEngine qfontdatabase.cpp 825 0x7ffff68c611c
6 loadEngine qfontdatabase.cpp 847 0x7ffff68c62ae
7 QFontDatabase::findFont qfontdatabase.cpp 2525 0x7ffff68cb825
8 QFontDatabase::load qfontdatabase.cpp 2607 0x7ffff68cbdc7
9 QFontPrivate::engineForScript qfont.cpp 218 0x7ffff689dc43
10 QTextEngine::fontEngine qtextengine.cpp 1926 0x7ffff68d71f7
11 QTextEngine::shapeText qtextengine.cpp 924 0x7ffff68d2d63
12 QTextEngine::shape qtextengine.cpp 1401 0x7ffff68d4c63
13 QTextLine::layout_helper qtextlayout.cpp 1753 0x7ffff68ece41
14 QTextLine::setLineWidth qtextlayout.cpp 1537 0x7ffff68ec36d
15 QTextDocumentLayoutPrivate::layoutBlock qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 2638 0x7ffff6942eea
16 QTextDocumentLayoutPrivate::layoutFlow qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 2424 0x7ffff69417f2
17 QTextDocumentLayoutPrivate::layoutFrame qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 2165 0x7ffff693ff74
18 QTextDocumentLayoutPrivate::layoutFrame qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 2071 0x7ffff693f432
19 QTextDocumentLayout::doLayout qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 2964 0x7ffff6944f25
20 QTextDocumentLayoutPrivate::ensureLayoutedByPosition qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 3136 0x7ffff6945c87
21 QTextDocumentLayoutPrivate::layoutStep qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 3142 0x7ffff6945cde
22 QTextDocumentLayout::documentChanged qtextdocumentlayout.cpp 2921 0x7ffff6944b65
23 QTextDocument::setDefaultFont qtextdocument.cpp 1618 0x7ffff690a585
24 QQuickTextPrivate::updateSize qquicktext.cpp 470 0x7ffff791104e
25 QQuickText::updatePolish qquicktext.cpp 2263 0x7ffff7917890
26 QQuickWindowPrivate::polishItems qquickwindow.cpp 271 0x7ffff78bba51
27 QSGThreadedRenderLoop::polishAndSync qsgthreadedrenderloop.cpp 1150 0x7ffff788eece
28 QSGThreadedRenderLoop::handleExposure qsgthreadedrenderloop.cpp 986 0x7ffff788e820
29 QSGThreadedRenderLoop::exposureChanged qsgthreadedrenderloop.cpp 920 0x7ffff788e442
30 QQuickWindow::exposeEvent qquickwindow.cpp 216 0x7ffff78bb7b0
31 QWindow::event qwindow.cpp 1956 0x7ffff67e45fc
32 QQuickWindow::event qquickwindow.cpp 1341 0x7ffff78bf5bd
33 QCoreApplicationPrivate::notify_helper qcoreapplication.cpp 1052 0x7ffff61e5ebe
34 QCoreApplication::notify qcoreapplication.cpp 997 0x7ffff61e5b80
35 QGuiApplication::notify qguiapplication.cpp 1457 0x7ffff67d483c
36 QCoreApplication::notifyInternal qcoreapplication.cpp 935 0x7ffff61e5a88
37 QCoreApplication::sendSpontaneousEvent qcoreapplication.h 240 0x7ffff67dbc37
38 QGuiApplicationPrivate::processExposeEvent qguiapplication.cpp 2528 0x7ffff67d91ab
39 QGuiApplicationPrivate::processWindowSystemEvent qguiapplication.cpp 1566 0x7ffff67d4af6
40 QWindowSystemInterface::sendWindowSystemEvents qwindowsysteminterface.cpp 579 0x7ffff67bf1b1
41 QUnixEventDispatcherQPA::processEvents qunixeventdispatcher.cpp 71 0x7ffff1891cf1
42 QEventLoop::processEvents qeventloop.cpp 136 0x7ffff61e27b8
43 QEventLoop::exec qeventloop.cpp 212 0x7ffff61e2a83
44 QCoreApplication::exec qcoreapplication.cpp 1188 0x7ffff61e616e
45 QGuiApplication::exec qguiapplication.cpp 1436 0x7ffff67d4764
46 main main.cpp 24 0x403894

In the rare case that it actually runs all the way through, at shutdown I get a crash in QFreetypeFace::cleanup instead:
0 ?? 0x7fff00000003
1 QFreetypeFace::cleanup qfontengine_ft.cpp 325 0x7ffff187b585
2 QtFreetypeData::~QtFreetypeData qfontengine_ft.cpp 153 0x7ffff187aa32
3 qThreadStorage_deleteData<QtFreetypeData> qthreadstorage.h 94 0x7ffff1886b0a
4 QThreadStorage<QtFreetypeData*>::deleteData qthreadstorage.h 137 0x7ffff18861f6
5 QThreadStorageData::finish qthreadstorage.cpp 203 0x7ffff5f6f17b
6 QCoreApplicationPrivate::cleanupThreadData qcoreapplication.cpp 455 0x7ffff61e4a0e
7 QGuiApplicationPrivate::~QGuiApplicationPrivate qguiapplication.cpp 1303 0x7ffff67d44f7
8 QGuiApplicationPrivate::~QGuiApplicationPrivate qguiapplication.cpp 1319 0x7ffff67d46bc
9 QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData>::cleanup qscopedpointer.h 62 0x7ffff622dae4
10 QScopedPointer<QObjectData, QScopedPointerDeleter<QObjectData> >::~QScopedPointer qscopedpointer.h 109 0x7ffff622c015
11 QObject::~QObject qobject.cpp 880 0x7ffff6221606
12 QCoreApplication::~QCoreApplication qcoreapplication.cpp 777 0x7ffff61e58d4
13 QGuiApplication::~QGuiApplication qguiapplication.cpp 550 0x7ffff67d18d8
14 main main.cpp 24 0x4038ae