Re: atmodem: gprs context deactivate crashes ofonod

[Denis Kenzior <denkenz@gmail.com>]

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Hi Kalle,

> Hello again,
> 
> I have been testing ofono with my Huawei E1552 usb stick, which is using
> atmodem and PPP. I noticed that whenever I call test/deactivate-context
> ofono either crashes or busyloops here in at_gprs_deactivate_primary():
> 
> 	if (g_at_chat_send(gcd->chat, buf, none_prefix,
> 				at_cgact_down_cb, cbd, g_free) > 0)
> 		return;
> 
> Further investigation revealed that gcd->chat is already unreferenced in
> setup_ppp():
> 
> 	g_at_chat_unref(gcd->chat);
> 
> So there's a conflict here. How to handle this properly? Calling
> g_at_ppp_shutdown() is most likely not enough, because nobody is not
> creating gcd->chat again which is needed during subsequent activate
> call.
> 
> Comments?
> 

Deactivation of the context was never made to work properly.  For a hint, 
please have a look at gatchat/gsmdial.c.  When PPP is established we should be 
using g_at_chat_suspend.  During a context deactivation we should use 
g_at_ppp_shutdown and then reactivate the gatchat using g_at_chat_resume 
(assuming the Huawei does not HUP the tty when disconnecting the ppp link.)

Regards,
-Denis