Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: fix oops in rfcomm tty code (v2)

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Sat Jul 19 2008 - 17:38:16 EST


Hi Vegard,

> This is a resend of a patch I sent earlier. It fixes a reproducible
> oops (see http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/7/13/89 for test case), and I'd
> be very happy for some feedback from Bluetooth people. Can this be
> included for testing somewhere? I don't have any bluetooth devices
> myself, so all my testing is limited to creating/releasing devices
> with ioctl (I'm not sure that's good enough).
>
> Dave: I have extended the rfcomm_dev_lock to include all the setup and
> teardown of a single device. On second thought, it doesn't really make
> sense to use a separate lock for that. May I have your opinion on this
> second version? (I've fixed the comments/BUG_ON that you pointed out.)

it seems it is the actually the first time, I see this one. Anyway, so
holding that lock is a bad idea. Fixing this the right way might be
tricky since the TTY layer is involved here and own the kobject. So I
would say we have to make sure that the RFCOMM TTY will hangup when
calling RELEASEDEV or otherwise fail.

Regards

Marcel


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