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

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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.
>> >
>>
>> It's a pre-stored parameter, it will not change by itself.
>
> I looked a bit into this and a good solution seems to be to hold a
> reference to the sock when we call a mod_timer() and then put the
> reference when we call del_timer() and the timer is inactive or when
> l2cap_monitor_timeout(). Look net/sctp/ for examples.
>

Same situation still is there, in this case, l2cap_monitor_timeout()
how to know the reference has been released by del_timer()?

If we refer to net/sctp, use timer_pending() to detect it, unless we can
ensure del_timer() always be called in interrupt context and same
level compare to timer interrupt, otherwise it's not an atomic operation
for this case.

-- 
Haijun Liu
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