linux-kernel - Re: Kernel bug: bluetooth meets TTY layer

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Date:	Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:26:29 +0000
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Cc:	David Newall <david@...idnewall.com>,
	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Kernel bug: bluetooth meets TTY layer

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:17:10 +0100
Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com> wrote:

> David Newall wrote:
> > Hi Arjan,
> > 
> > I've not been able to find this file, "drivers/bluetooth/hci_tty.c", but 
> > anyway, This seems to be what happens: Hci_uart_close() flushes using 
> > hci_uart_flush().  Subsequently, in hci_dev_do_close(), (one step in 
> > hci_unregister_dev()), hci_uart_flush() is called again.  The comment in 
> > uart_flush_buffer(), relating to the WARN_ON(), indicates you can't 
> > flush after the port is closed; which sounds reasonable.  I think 
> > hci_uart_close() should set hdev->flush to NULL before returning.  
> > Hci_dev_do_close() does check for this.  The code path is rather 
> > involved and I'm not entirely clear of all steps, but I think that's 
> > what should be done.
> > 
> > Patch for stupidly obsolete kernel attached.
> 
> looks reasonable; unfortunately I don't know the tty code well enough to judge this patch...
> Alan?

I don't know the bluetooth code well enough to even guess and I've not
had time to study this one. 

Alan
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