Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: Remove spurious error message

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Thu, May 13, 2021 at 10:09:49AM +0200, Szymon Janc wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Wednesday, 12 May 2021 20:13:19 CEST Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> > Hi Kai,
> > 
> > On Wed, May 12, 2021 at 11:06 AM Kai Krakow <kai@kaishome.de> wrote:
> > > Hi Szymon!
> > > 
> > > Am Mi., 12. Mai 2021 um 15:34 Uhr schrieb Szymon Janc 
> <szymon.janc@codecoup.pl>:
> > > > Even with rate limited reporting this is very spammy and since
> > > > it is remote device that is providing bogus data there is no
> > > > need to report this as error.
> > > 
> > > [...]
> > > 
> > > > [72464.546319] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72464.857318] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72465.163332] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72465.278331] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72465.432323] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72465.891334] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72466.045334] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72466.197321] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72466.340318] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72466.498335] Bluetooth: hci0: advertising data len corrected
> > > > [72469.803299] bt_err_ratelimited: 10 callbacks suppressed
> > > > 
> > > > Signed-off-by: Szymon Janc <szymon.janc@codecoup.pl>
> > > > Fixes: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203753
> > > > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
> > > > ---
> > > > 
> > > >  net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 2 --
> > > >  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> > > > 
> > > > diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> > > > index 5e99968939ce..abdc44dc0b2f 100644
> > > > --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> > > > +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> > > > @@ -5476,8 +5476,6 @@ static void process_adv_report(struct hci_dev
> > > > *hdev, u8 type, bdaddr_t *bdaddr,> > 
> > > >         /* Adjust for actual length */
> > > >         if (len != real_len) {
> > > > 
> > > > -               bt_dev_err_ratelimited(hdev, "advertising data len
> > > > corrected %u -> %u", -                                      len,
> > > > real_len);
> > > > 
> > > >                 len = real_len;
> > > >         
> > > >         }
> > > 
> > > This renders the "if" quite useless since it now always ensures len =
> > > real_len and nothing else. At this point, the "if" can be removed, and
> > > len can be set unconditionally. Depending on the further context of
> > > the patch, destinction between real_len and len may not be needed at
> > > all and real_len could be renamed to len, ditching the unused original
> > > which is potentially bogus data anyways according to your commit
> > > description.
> > 
> > That was introduced to truncate the len, the patch just removes the
> > logging but it does keep this logic, if you want to understand the
> > reason for it just use git blame and look at the history.
> 
> Actually, with no log there is no need for this "if" and real_len could be 
> indeed avoided.
> 
> But I'd change this is subsequent patch which would not be tagged as stable 
> candidate. Thoughts?

Fix it properly, and worry about stable trees later, they can also
always take the correct change as well.

thanks,

greg k-h