This patchset addresses an issue with the rfcomm tty driver in the current stable kernels that manifests itself as a sudden lockup of the whole machine or as a OOPS if we are lucky enough (I wasn't). Triggering the problem is very easy: 1) establish a bluetooth connection with a bluetooth host 2) open the tty it provides with some program 3) turn off the bluetooth host or take it out of range After a timeout the machine freezes. Another way to trigger these lockups is to simply release the rfcomm tty. This happens because the underlying tty_struct objects and tty_port objects are freed while being used: the code doesn't take references properly. The following patches address the problem by implementing a proper tty_port driver for rfcomm. There are still some issues left: one relevant to flow control (which is also missing in the current code) and another relevant to a corner case in rfcomm_dev_state_change() that I intend to fix with a future patch. They are commented with a FIXME. Thank you, Gianluca Gianluca Anzolin (6): rfcomm: Take proper tty_struct references rfcomm: Remove the device from the list in the destructor rfcomm: Move the tty initialization and cleanup out of open/close rfcomm: Implement .activate, .shutdown and .carrier_raised methods rfcomm: Fix the reference counting of tty_port rfcomm: Purge the dlc->tx_queue to avoid circular dependency net/bluetooth/rfcomm/tty.c | 263 +++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 122 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-) -- 1.8.3.4 -- 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
