netdev - Re: [RFC][-rc9 PATCH] Bluetooth: fix oops in rfcomm

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 10:41:17 +0800
From:	"Dave Young" <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
To:	"Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
Cc:	"Soeren Sonnenburg" <kernel@....de>,
	"Marcel Holtmann" <marcel@...tmann.org>,
	"David Woodhouse" <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][-rc9 PATCH] Bluetooth: fix oops in rfcomm

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 1:23 AM, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Disclaimer: This is just an RFC as I don't really know the code in
> question. But I did try to do it correctly and yes, it DOES fix the
> oops for me. But I'd be really happy if somebody who uses Bluetooth
> in the first place could test & review.
>
> (In other words, you may use this patch for inspiration, etc. if you
>  decide to give it a try yourself.)
>
>
> Vegard
>
>
> From 675b50291f0af40974074590e2fd16ae0546ecde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
> Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2008 19:02:11 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] Bluetooth: fix race between rfcomm and tty
>
> Soeren Sonnenburg reported:
>> this oops happened after a couple of s2ram cycles so it might be very
>> well crap. However I somehow triggered it by /etc/init.d/bluetooth
>> stop/start's which also call hid2hci maybe even a connection was about
>> to be established at that time. As I remember having seen a problem like
>> this before I thought I report it (even though I have a madwifi tainted
>> kernel).
>>
>> kobject_add_internal failed for rfcomm0 with -EEXIST, don't try to register things with the same name in the same directory.
>
> It turns out that the following sequence of actions will reproduce the
> oops:
>
>  1. Create a new rfcomm device (using RFCOMMCREATEDEV ioctl)
>  2. (Try to) open the device
>  3. Release the rfcomm device (using RFCOMMRELEASEDEV ioctl)
>
> At this point, the "rfcomm?" tty is still in use, but the device is gone
> from the internal rfcomm list, so the device id can be reused.
>
>  4. Create a new rfcomm device with the same device id as before
>
> And now kobject will complain that the tty already exists.
>
> This patch attempts to correct this by only removing the device from the
> internal rfcomm list of devices at the final unregister, so that the id
> won't get reused until the device has been completely destructed.

It looks good, I agree with your change.

>
> This should be safe as the RFCOMM_TTY_RELEASED bit will be set for the
> device and prevent the device from being reopened after it has been
> released.
>
> We also fix a race at the same time by including the call to
> tty_unregister_device inside the rfcomm_dev_lock (the lock protecting
> the list of devices).
>
> Reported-by: Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel@....de>
> Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Cc: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@...il.com>
> Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
> ---
>  net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c |   13 +++++++------
>  1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
> index c919187..e289568 100644
> --- a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
> +++ b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c
> @@ -95,6 +95,8 @@ static void rfcomm_dev_destruct(struct rfcomm_dev *dev)
>
>        BT_DBG("dev %p dlc %p", dev, dlc);
>
> +       write_lock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
> +
>        /* Refcount should only hit zero when called from rfcomm_dev_del()
>           which will have taken us off the list. Everything else are
>           refcounting bugs. */
> @@ -108,8 +110,11 @@ static void rfcomm_dev_destruct(struct rfcomm_dev *dev)
>
>        rfcomm_dlc_put(dlc);
>
> +       list_del_init(&dev->list);
>        tty_unregister_device(rfcomm_tty_driver, dev->id);

        if (IS_ERR(dev->tty_dev)) {
                err = PTR_ERR(dev->tty_dev);
                list_del(&dev->list);
                kfree(dev);
                return err;
        }

The list_del need to be protected as well.

>
> +       write_unlock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
> +
>        kfree(dev);
>
>        /* It's safe to call module_put() here because socket still
> @@ -278,14 +283,14 @@ static int rfcomm_dev_add(struct rfcomm_dev_req *req, struct rfcomm_dlc *dlc)
>        __module_get(THIS_MODULE);
>
>  out:
> -       write_unlock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
> -
>        if (err < 0) {
> +               write_unlock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
>                kfree(dev);
>                return err;
>        }
>
>        dev->tty_dev = tty_register_device(rfcomm_tty_driver, dev->id, NULL);
> +       write_unlock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
>
>        if (IS_ERR(dev->tty_dev)) {
>                err = PTR_ERR(dev->tty_dev);
> @@ -314,10 +319,6 @@ static void rfcomm_dev_del(struct rfcomm_dev *dev)
>        else
>                set_bit(RFCOMM_TTY_RELEASED, &dev->flags);
>
> -       write_lock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
> -       list_del_init(&dev->list);
> -       write_unlock_bh(&rfcomm_dev_lock);
> -
>        rfcomm_dev_put(dev);
>  }
>
> --
> 1.5.4.1
>
>



-- 
Regards
dave
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