From: "John W. Linville" <linville@tuxdriver.com>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: davej@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: shutdown(3) and bluetooth.
Date: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 09:02:40 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131113140239.GA2154@tuxdriver.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131112.161350.946584501122269943.davem@davemloft.net>
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:13:50PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:11:25 -0500
>
> > Is shutdown() allowed to block indefinitely ? The man page doesn't say either way,
> > and I've noticed that my fuzz tester occasionally hangs for days spinning in bt_sock_wait_state()
> >
> > Is there something I should be doing to guarantee that this operation
> > will either time out, or return instantly ?
> >
> > In this specific case, I doubt anything is on the "sender" end of the socket, so
> > it's going to be waiting forever for a state change that won't arrive.
>
> Adding bluetooth and wireless lists. Dave, please consult MAINTAINERS when
> asking questions like this, thanks!
I don't have an authoritative answer. I do, however, seem to recall
that trying to shutdown a SunOS box with a hung NFS mount would seem
to hang forever. I don't think that is a great metric for how we
should behave, of course...
John
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-11-13 14:02 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-12 21:11 shutdown(3) and bluetooth Dave Jones
2013-11-12 21:13 ` David Miller
2013-11-12 21:13 ` David Miller
2013-11-13 14:02 ` John W. Linville [this message]
2013-11-12 21:56 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-12 21:56 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-12 22:10 ` Dave Jones
2013-11-12 22:10 ` Dave Jones
2013-11-12 22:32 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-12 22:32 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-12 22:48 ` Dave Jones
2013-11-12 22:48 ` Dave Jones
2013-11-12 23:37 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-12 23:37 ` Marcel Holtmann
2013-11-13 0:28 ` Dave Jones
2013-11-13 0:28 ` Dave Jones
2013-11-13 1:58 ` Marcel Holtmann
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