Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] Regression fixes for rfcomm/tty.c

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Hi Gianluca,

>>>> all 4 patches have been applied to bluetooth-next tree.
>>> 
>>> Maybe a bit late, but I've just seen they miss a Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx to automatically end up in 3.12 and 3.13 too.
>> 
>> we can always promote them to stable. On Purpose I wanted them to cycle through bluetooth-next for a while to make sure they do not cause any other regressions.
>> 
> 
> Unfortunately it seems I overlooked the fact that rfcomm_dev_activate() is
> called with the port->mutex held. So patches 2/3/4 cause a regression I missed
> because I didn't turn on the appropriate debug options (circular locking
> dependency, a bug report already appeared on this list).
> 
> I'm afraid this all stems from my partial knowledge of the tty_port code and
> unfortunately I don't know how to solve the problem right now.
> 
> I think it's better to revert those patches for the moment.

can we get this fixed instead. If I revert them, I have a different issue. So I am trading one bug for another one.

Regards

Marcel

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