Re: [PATCH v4] Bluetooth: defer cleanup of resources in hci_unregister_dev()

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Hi Linus,

On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:45 AM Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2021 at 11:19 AM Luiz Augusto von Dentz
> <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > It doesn't apply to bluetooth-next, could you please rebase it.
>
> If you're ok with the patch, I think it should go into 5.14 - and be
> marked for stable.
>
> The locking right now is very wrong, and causes syzbot warnings and
> probably keeps people from finding other things.
>
> And we can't just revert the incorrect locking change, because it was
> a security issue.
>
> So this should go in the current release cycle. I agree it's a bit
> scary - not because I think the patch is all that complicated, but
> because this area has clearly had issues and is subtle - but I'd
> rather do it asap and get reports on it early than delay it further.

Alright so we are skipping bluetooth-next then, I thought of using
bluetooth-next for further testing these changes but I agree this
should go into 5.14 so Im fine if you take it straight to your tree:

Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>


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Luiz Augusto von Dentz



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