Re: [Bluez-devel] Rfcomm Use Count

Marcel Holtmann
2004-09-17T08:58:54Z

Hi Daryl,

> I have a simple way to reproduce at least part of this bug. I don't have an
> up-to-date x86 machine to try this on, but I suspect you'll see the same
> behaviour:
>
> 1. Compile and run the attached code on one machine
> 2. Connect to it from another machine using: rctest -n -P1 <bd_addr>
> 3. Hit ctrl-c on rctest
> 4. Hit ctrl-c on bzt (or whatever you called the compiled code)
> 5. lsmod and look at the rfcomm use count.
>
> I think the problem stems from rfcomm_cleanup_listen() and
> bluez_accept_dequeue(). Bluez_accept_dequeue() won't return the socket if it
> is in the closed state, and so rfcomm_cleanup_listen() can't fully cleanup.
>
> And if accept is called before rfcomm_cleanup_listen(), then (I think) the
> socket will be unlinked from the accept queue (by accept) but not killed,
> and so also will not get cleaned up.
>
> Things appear to work if you reverse the order of steps 3 and 4.

I can verify that this bug exists even in a 2.6 kernel. There is no need
to execute step 4, because the missing decrementing of the use count is
already there after step 3. And I think the same problem will exists for
the L2CAP module. Please verify this for me.

> I'd send you a patch if I had a simple one, but I don't know what the best
> approach is. On solution may be to make bluez_accept_dequeue() always return
> the socket regardless of state and then fix anything that calls
> bluez_accept_dequeue() to handle the possibility of a closed socket being
> returned.

At the moment I must admit that I have no idea how to fix this in a sane
way. It seems that this bug is in there from the beginning and a wrong
fix can cause unexpected side effects.

I don't think that the problem is in rfcomm_sock_cleanup_listen(),
because the wrong use count is already present after step 3. So when we
close a connected DLC that is not accepted yet, we still have it on the
accept queue then we have a problem. Maybe there is a bug in our state
machine and this is not socket related.

Regards

Marcel

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