Re: [RFC] Some kernel changes

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Hi Marcel,

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Jaikumar,
>
>> >>>>> why do you wanna set AUTH_PENDING again. That is not needed we only
>> >>>>> wanna know once encryption comes back on. If no in time, then we just
>> >>>>> disconnect the link. That simple.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>>>  b) I also see that we are not clearing the timer and hence after
>> >>>>>> RFCOMM_AUTH_TIMEOUT period expires we bring down the RFCOMM connection
>> >>>>>> even though the encryption has been established.
>> >>>>>
>> >>>>> Good catch. Fixed it.
>> >>>>
>> >>>> Cool.  Can you upload it to bluetooth-testing git ? I saw a related
>> >>>> problem while looking at the timer issue and wanted to see if the fix
>> >>>> takes care of it.
>> >>>
>> >>> I am in the process in doing so, but there are other important things
>> >>> that need to be done first.
>> >>
>> >> Sorry to push you on this, is this patch been uploaded ?
>> >
>> > since a few days now. Check the bluetooth-testing.git and it is even rebased
>> > against 2.6.29-rc2.
>> >
>> I applied the patches and I see that we actually don't pause the
>> RFCOMM tx traffic because we don't check on
>> the RFCOMM_SEC_PENDING flag when sending the tx packets in rfcomm_process_dlcs.
>> I verified this using the "attest" command - we keep sending RFCOMM
>> traffic even though encryption is off.
>>
>> Please look at the patch attached.
>>
>> Also should we drop the "rx" packets too  when the encryption is dropped ?
>
> can you get me a version with a proper commit message. Just the subject
> is not gonna be good enough.
>

Sorry, its attached. Also like mentioned above the patch checks only
while sending tx packets ?
Should we drop "rx" packets also ?

> Regards
>
> Marcel
>
>
>

Attachment: 0001-Bluetooth-When-encyption-is-dropped-do-not-send-RF.patch
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