Meet one panic issue as below stack: <1>[11340.226404] BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008 <4>[11340.226619] EIP is at __sco_sock_close+0xe8/0x1a0 <4>[11340.226629] EAX: f063a740 EBX: 00000000 ECX: f58f4544 EDX: 00000000 <4>[11340.226640] ESI: dec83e00 EDI: 5f9a081f EBP: e0fdff38 ESP: e0fdff1c <0>[11340.226674] Stack: <4>[11340.226682] c184db87 c1251028 dec83e00 e0fdff38 c1754aef dec83e00 00000000 e0fdff5c <4>[11340.226718] c184f587 e0fdff64 e0fdff68 5f9a081f e0fdff5c c1751852 d7813800 62262f10 <4>[11340.226752] e0fdff70 c1753c00 00000000 00000001 0000000d e0fdffac c175425c 00000041 <0>[11340.226793] Call Trace: <4>[11340.226813] [<c184db87>] ? sco_sock_clear_timer+0x27/0x60 <4>[11340.226831] [<c1251028>] ? local_bh_enable+0x68/0xd0 <4>[11340.226846] [<c1754aef>] ? lock_sock_nested+0x4f/0x60 <4>[11340.226862] [<c184f587>] sco_sock_shutdown+0x67/0xb0 <4>[11340.226879] [<c1751852>] ? sockfd_lookup_light+0x22/0x80 <4>[11340.226897] [<c1753c00>] sys_shutdown+0x30/0x60 <4>[11340.226912] [<c175425c>] sys_socketcall+0x1dc/0x2a0 <4>[11340.226929] [<c149ba78>] ? trace_hardirqs_on_thunk+0xc/0x10 <4>[11340.226944] [<c18860f1>] syscall_call+0x7/0xb <4>[11340.226960] [<c1880000>] ? restore_cur+0x5e/0xd7 <0>[11340.226969] Code: <f0> ff 4b 08 0f 94 c0 84 c0 74 20 80 7b 19 01 74 2f b8 0a 00 00 Disassemble the code: base address of __sco_sock_close is 0xc184f410 0xc184f4f8 <+232>: lock decl 0x8(%ebx) < == crash here, ebx is 0x0, the related source code is: (gdb) l *0xc184f4f8 0xc184f4f8 is in __sco_sock_close (arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:123) 119 static inline int atomic_dec_and_test(atomic_t *v) 123 asm volatile(LOCK_PREFIX "decl %0; sete %1" The whole call stack is: sys_shutdown() sco_sock_shutdown() __sco_sock_close() hci_conn_put() atomic_dec_and_test() Due to the conn->hcon is NULL, and the member hcon->refcnt is at offset 0x8, so "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000008" appears. Here fix it that adding the condition if conn->hcon is NULL, just like in sco_chan_del(). Signed-off-by: liu chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@xxxxxxxxx> --- net/bluetooth/sco.c | 6 ++++-- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/net/bluetooth/sco.c b/net/bluetooth/sco.c index 531a93d..190f70c 100644 --- a/net/bluetooth/sco.c +++ b/net/bluetooth/sco.c @@ -355,8 +355,10 @@ static void __sco_sock_close(struct sock *sk) if (sco_pi(sk)->conn) { sk->sk_state = BT_DISCONN; sco_sock_set_timer(sk, SCO_DISCONN_TIMEOUT); - hci_conn_put(sco_pi(sk)->conn->hcon); - sco_pi(sk)->conn->hcon = NULL; + if (sco_pi(sk)->conn->hcon) { + hci_conn_put(sco_pi(sk)->conn->hcon); + sco_pi(sk)->conn->hcon = NULL; + } } else sco_chan_del(sk, ECONNRESET); break; -- 1.7.0.4 -- 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