Re: [RFC] Some kernel changes

[jaikumar Ganesh <jaikumarg@gmail.com>]

Hi Marcel,

On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 9:46 AM, jaikumar Ganesh <jaikumarg@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Marcel,
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2009 at 3:19 AM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>> Hi Jaikumar,
>>
>>> >>>>> why do you wanna set AUTH_PENDING again. That is not needed we only
>>> >>>>> wanna know once encryption comes back on. If no in time, then we just
>>> >>>>> disconnect the link. That simple.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>>>  b) I also see that we are not clearing the timer and hence after
>>> >>>>>> RFCOMM_AUTH_TIMEOUT period expires we bring down the RFCOMM connection
>>> >>>>>> even though the encryption has been established.
>>> >>>>>
>>> >>>>> Good catch. Fixed it.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Cool.  Can you upload it to bluetooth-testing git ? I saw a related
>>> >>>> problem while looking at the timer issue and wanted to see if the fix
>>> >>>> takes care of it.
>>> >>>
>>> >>> I am in the process in doing so, but there are other important things
>>> >>> that need to be done first.
>>> >>
>>> >> Sorry to push you on this, is this patch been uploaded ?
>>> >
>>> > since a few days now. Check the bluetooth-testing.git and it is even rebased
>>> > against 2.6.29-rc2.
>>> >
>>> I applied the patches and I see that we actually don't pause the
>>> RFCOMM tx traffic because we don't check on
>>> the RFCOMM_SEC_PENDING flag when sending the tx packets in rfcomm_process_dlcs.
>>> I verified this using the "attest" command - we keep sending RFCOMM
>>> traffic even though encryption is off.
>>>
>>> Please look at the patch attached.
>>>
>>> Also should we drop the "rx" packets too  when the encryption is dropped ?
>>
>> can you get me a version with a proper commit message. Just the subject
>> is not gonna be good enough.
>>
>
> Sorry, its attached. Also like mentioned above the patch checks only
> while sending tx packets ?
> Should we drop "rx" packets also ?
>
>> Regards
>>
>> Marcel
>>
>>
>>
>
Hope you got a chance to look at the above  patch and comment
regarding rx packets.

-Thanks
Jaikumar