Hi Martin, > >On netbook platform( Eeepc 901; "Aspire One + Omiz Bluetooth dongle"), when using >bluez, such as paring, l2ping and rfcomm, kernel crashes easily. > >I am using kernel 2.6.29. > > >I caught the crash messag: > >BUG: spinlock bad magic on CPU#0, swapper/0 > >Bug: unable to handle kernel paging request at 00646733 > > I have done some research on the issue and found that at > hci_event.c: hci_disconn_complete_evt() > After > hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn) > The contents of conn maybe modified > Such as > conn->idle_timer > conn->disc_timer > and > conn->list > that leads to crash of kernel when run hci_conn_del(conn) > > I worked a patch to run hci_conn_del_sysfs after hci_conn_del and find that the issue can be fixed. Some one can tell me whether the patch is ok, and the root cause of the issue. Thanks! :) > > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c > index f91ba69..1999ac1 100644 > --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c > +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c > @@ -1009,10 +1009,9 @@ static inline void hci_disconn_complete_evt(struct > hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff > if (conn) { > conn->state = BT_CLOSED; > > - hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn); > - > hci_proto_disconn_ind(conn, ev->reason); > hci_conn_del(conn); > + hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn); > } > > hci_dev_unlock(hdev); can you verify that a bluetooth-testing.git kernel would still procude this NULL pointer dereference. It looks a little bit different, but I think that actually got fixed now. Regards Marcel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html