netdev - Re: [Bug 11442] btusb suspend/resume bug...

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Date:	Tue, 30 Sep 2008 23:44:42 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Marcel Holtmann <marcel@...tmann.org>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	linux-bluetooth@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	bugme-daemon@...zilla.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Bug 11442] btusb suspend/resume bug...

On Tuesday, 30 of September 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> > > >> Rafael, can you pull from my tree and test the changes:
> > > >>
> > > >> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/ 
> > > >> bluetooth-2.6.git
> > > >>
> > > >> It would be interesting if these fixes are enough.
> > > >
> > > > They appear to be enough.  I haven't had any suspend/resume failures  
> > > > with them
> > > > applied.
> > > 
> > > so it works _without_ applying patch-btusb-suspend.
> > 
> > Well, unfortunately I spoke too soon.
> > 
> > I'm still seeing post-hibernation crashes triggered by the bluetooth user land
> > trying to use the device handled by btusb.  They happen every second
> > hibernation, more or less, and apparently they are oopses in various code
> > paths not directly related to bluetooth, like ext3 (memory corruption or
> > what?).
> 
> I pushed two extra patches to my bluetooth-2.6 repository:
> 
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/holtmann/bluetooth-2.6.git
> 
> One is fixing a double-free in the error path. This error path can be
> triggered during suspend/resume if the USB core just disconnects the
> device. Please check if that fixes it for you.
> 
> > With patch-btusb-suspend applied I don't see them (actually I have to use
> > a slightly modified version of the patch which is appended).
> > 
> > Interestingly enough, suspend to RAM works without any visible problems.
> 
> As Oliver said, the USB core should do the right thing when no suspend
> and resume callbacks are provided. I looked through the code so many
> times now and I am running out of ideas what can happen.
> 
> Lets try it one last time without the suspend patch, but the double free
> fix and see if that works. Otherwise I really give up.

This time I cannot reproduce the hibernation issue without the suspend patch,
so it appears that your double-free fix works for me.

Thanks,
Rafael
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