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From: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
To: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch]race condition in btusb disconnect() handling
Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2008 16:31:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1219156278.7591.145.camel@violet.holtmann.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200808191605.40987.oliver@neukum.org>

Hi Oliver,

> > > First you release the interface, then you unregister the hci.
> > 
> > Putting it after hci_unregister_dev is an issue. The unregister will
> > call __hci_dev_put and then in return will call the destruct callback
> > which will free the data pointer.
> > 
> > So either we use hci_dev_hold or make sure that disconnect can only
> > disable the SCO interface. That comes directly with the first comment
> > from you.
> 
> Here is a new version. I am afraid normal hci_dev_hold would fail if
> the disconnect happens because the btusb module is being unloaded.

the btusb_stop_traffic change is bogus. You don't need that. The flush
callback will be called to ensure that all TX traffic is released.

I am not sure about hci_dev_hold. We ensure that a reference count to
the module is hold when the HCI device is brought up.

Regards

Marcel



  reply	other threads:[~2008-08-19 14:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-08-19 12:23 [patch]race condition in btusb disconnect() handling Oliver Neukum
2008-08-19 12:43 ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-08-19 13:09   ` Oliver Neukum
2008-08-19 13:28     ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-08-19 13:40       ` Oliver Neukum
2008-08-19 14:05       ` Oliver Neukum
2008-08-19 14:31         ` Marcel Holtmann [this message]
2008-08-19 15:14           ` Oliver Neukum
2008-08-19 15:27             ` Marcel Holtmann
2008-08-19 15:34               ` Oliver Neukum

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