Citra freezes when disconnecting a reWASD Xbox 360 virtual controller on Nightly Build 1735 and later

[guitarjorge24]

I have tried about about 6 different version of Citra to find which version exactly introduced this issue. I get a 100% repro on the issue starting on Nightly Build 1735 (citra-windows-mingw-20211212-1911c97) If I used Nightly Build 1734 or earlier the issue does not occur.

I have attached the log: citra_log.txt

Repro Steps

1. Install reWASD (a controller remapping software)
2. Create a mapping profile and make sure reWASD is on:
3. Apply the profile:
4. Launch Citra and start a game
5. Now either disconnect the controller from the PC, or turn off remaping in reWASD by clicking the button in the bottom-left of the reWASD window (as seen on the image above).
6. Citra will freeze permanently:

[guitarjorge24]

The controller I'm using is an Xbox Elite Series 2, however, when I use reWASD I think it tries to emulate input from an Xbox 360 controller so the issue might be specific to unplugging an Xbox 360 controller in the middle of a game. This is what the controller looks like in Control Panel:

[trevorrl]

For what it's worth, I have this issue when using an Xbox One controller natively, not using reWASD or any other mapping software, but otherwise the behavior is exactly the same.

[guitarjorge24]

I'm still having this issue on Nightly Build 1781