Re: [PATCHv2 1/2] Bluetooth: Check sk is not owned before freeing l2cap_conn

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Hi Andrei,

* Ville Tervo <ville.tervo@xxxxxx> [2010-05-28 10:14:31 +0300]:

> Hi,
> 
> On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 5:39 AM, Gustavo F. Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > Using the sock timer like you are you using looks too hackish, there are
> > kernel struct for such defer works. I still prefer the first solution,
> > that avoids the call to l2cap_chan_del() only.
> > But we have to solve the problem with the sock_kill() call, I'm
> > wondering if add a check inside l2cap_sock_kill is good idea. So we
> > check if the socket is owned by user and if yes, we just return, however
> > may have problem with socket refcnt doing that.
> >
> > Looking to the rfcomm code I found something that could be cause of the
> > problem, there isn't any sock_hold() in the rfcomm code, maybe is it
> > missing? Nevertheless it does the sock_put() without call sock_hold().
> >
> > Like you I'm trying to figure out how to fix this issue, I don't know
> > yet how to fix it properly. I advice to take a look on the rfcomm code
> > and check if we really are missing a sock_hold() there.
> 
> Wouldn't backlogging of destructive operations (l2cap disc rsp and
> req) solve these issues? All operations cannot be backlogged since
> they cannot mapped to certain sock.

I've been thinking about this issue and now I agree that backlog them is
the better solution. We're already using backlog queue for ERTM, so you
will have to extend it only. Check the branch for-next of my tree to see
how I did that.

-- 
Gustavo F. Padovan
http://padovan.org
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