Re: [PATCH 1/2 v2] Bluetooth: Fix system crash caused by del_timer()

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Hi Haijun,

* haijun liu <liuhaijun.er@xxxxxxxxx> [2010-10-25 09:35:33 +0800]:

> Hi Gustavo,
> 
> >> During test session with another vendor's bt stack, found that in
> >> l2cap_chan_del() using del_timer() caused l2cap_monitor_timeout()
> >> be called after the sock was freed, so it raised a system crash.
> >> So I just replaced del_timer() with del_timer_sync() to solve it.
> >
> > NAK on this. If you read the del_timer_sync() documentation you can
> > see that you can't call del_timer_sync() on interrupt context. The
> > possible solution here is to check in the beginning of
> > l2cap_monitor_timeout() if your sock is still valid.
> >
> 
> You are right, I only considered close() interface, so missed the interrupt
> context.
> 
> It's very difficult to check sock valid or not in timeout procedure, since it's
> an interrupt context, and only can get context from parameter pre-stored,
> except global variables.

I think you can check for sk == null there.

-- 
Gustavo F. Padovan
ProFUSION embedded systems - http://profusion.mobi
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