Re: Kernel oops with bluetooth usb dongle

From: Dave Young
Date: Thu Feb 21 2008 - 02:31:22 EST


On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 4:11 PM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, 20 Feb 2008, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Marcel Holtmann wrote:
>
> > > I don't really have any idea. Nothing has been changed in this area for a
> > > couple of years. The command TX timeout is the timeout that indicates a
> > > missing answer to a command sent down to the Bluetooth chip.
> > >
> > > However this involves some atomic and tasklet stuff. Did we have some changes
> > > that I missed and might now render this usage as broken.
> >
> > Not that I'm aware off, but this might as well be some old use after
> > free bug which got exposed by some unrelated change. The good news is
> > that it is reproducible. I'll hack up some nasty debug patch which
> > lets us - hopefully - decode where the timer was armed.
>
> Quel, before I do that, is there any chance that you retest with the
> latest mainline git version ?
>
> http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/snapshots/patch-2.6.25-rc2-git4.bz2

And please test with this patch as well:

http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/20/121

>
> Is the delta which applies on top of rc2.
>
>
>
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
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