Re: kernel panic happens when disconnecting Bluetooth headset

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Hi Marcel,

On Sat, Dec 19, 2009 at 1:02 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Nick,
>
>> >> Processing a RFCOMM UA frame when the socket is closed and we were not
>> >> the
>> >> RFCOMM initiator would cause rfcomm_session_put() to be called twice
>> >> during
>> >> rfcomm_process_rx(). This would cause a kernel panic in
>> >> rfcomm_session_close.
>> >>
>> >> This could be easily reproduced during disconnect with devices such as
>> >> Motorola H270 that send RFCOMM UA followed quickly by L2CAP disconnect
>> >> request.
>> >> This hcidump for this looks like:
>> >>
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:37.788895 < ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 8
>> >>    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0041 len 4 [psm 3]
>> >>      RFCOMM(s): DISC: cr 0 dlci 20 pf 1 ilen 0 fcs 0x7d
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:37.906204 > HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets
>> >> (0x13)
>> >> plen 5
>> >>    handle 1 packets 1
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:37.933090 > ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 8
>> >>    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 4 [psm 3]
>> >>      RFCOMM(s): UA: cr 0 dlci 20 pf 1 ilen 0 fcs 0x57
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:38.636764 < ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 8
>> >>    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0041 len 4 [psm 3]
>> >>      RFCOMM(s): DISC: cr 0 dlci 0 pf 1 ilen 0 fcs 0x9c
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:38.744125 > HCI Event: Number of Completed Packets
>> >> (0x13)
>> >> plen 5
>> >>    handle 1 packets 1
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:38.763687 > ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 8
>> >>    L2CAP(d): cid 0x0040 len 4 [psm 3]
>> >>      RFCOMM(s): UA: cr 0 dlci 0 pf 1 ilen 0 fcs 0xb6
>> >> 2009-09-21 17:22:38.783554 > ACL data: handle 1 flags 0x02 dlen 12
>> >>    L2CAP(s): Disconn req: dcid 0x0040 scid 0x0041
>> >>
>> >> Avoid calling rfcomm_session_put() twice by skipping this call
>> >> in rfcomm_recv_ua() if the socket is closed.
>> >>
>> >> Picked from:
>> >> http://android.git.kernel.org/?p=kernel/common.git;a=commit;h=1048e007842da2d6440679e1ca80f45438a6369d
>> >>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Nick Pelly <npelly@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> >> Signed-off-by: Andrei Emeltchenko <andrei.emeltchenko@xxxxxxxxx>
>> >> ---
>> >>  net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c |    3 ++-
>> >>  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>> >>
>> >> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
>> >> index 0313e88..56ffcb8 100644
>> >> --- a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
>> >> +++ b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
>> >> @@ -1148,7 +1148,8 @@ static int rfcomm_recv_ua(struct rfcomm_session
>> >> *s, u8 dlci)
>> >>                         break;
>> >>
>> >>                 case BT_DISCONN:
>> >> -                       rfcomm_session_put(s);
>> >> +                       if (s->sock->sk->sk_state != BT_CLOSED)
>> >> +                               rfcomm_session_put(s);
>> >>                         break;
>> >>                 }
>> >>         }
>> >
>> > I am not a big fan of conditionally decreasing reference counts. I do
>> > think it would be better to fix this by holding an extra pair of
>> > reference counts or actually fixing the imbalance. What about the other
>> > patches I proposed?
>>
>> Your proposed patch was to add an extra hold() / put() reference count
>> around the offending put(). I did test this patch, and found it does
>> not fix the underlying imbalance, it just moves the kernel panic
>> somewhere else.
>>
>> As best I can tell, my patch does address the underlying imbalance. It
>> is in production on Android phones and seems to work well. As best I
>> can tell, there is not a cleaner solution that does not involve
>> significant refactoring of rfcomm refcounting.

We have this patch also in Nokia N900 phone. And this was the best solution
for the problem mentioned.

> the RFCOMM reference counting is something nasty and it does need to be
> re-written. One thing that needs to happen that we stop using the L2CAP
> sockets directly. We have to put a proper L2CAP in-kernel specific API
> in between that ensures we are not mixing things. That is the one issues
> that we always had in this area.
>
> Before applying this patch, I like to have additionally a comment in
> front of this conditional put call that explains a little bit the
> problem area here. The long explanation with logs etc. should be in the
> commit message. I have to make sure that we fully understand what is
> going on here and why we did it.

What do you think about following comment:

--- a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
@@ -1151,7 +1151,11 @@ static int rfcomm_recv_ua(struct rfcomm_session
*s, u8 dlci)
 			break;

 		case BT_DISCONN:
-			rfcomm_session_put(s);
+			/* When socket is closed and we are not RFCOMM
+			 * initiator rfcomm_process_rx already calls
+			 * rfcomm_session_put */
+			if (s->sock->sk->sk_state != BT_CLOSED)
+				rfcomm_session_put(s);
 			break;
 		}
 	}
-- 


Regards
Andrei
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