From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:11:25 -0500
> Is shutdown() allowed to block indefinitely ? The man page doesn't say either way,
> and I've noticed that my fuzz tester occasionally hangs for days spinning in bt_sock_wait_state()
>
> Is there something I should be doing to guarantee that this operation
> will either time out, or return instantly ?
>
> In this specific case, I doubt anything is on the "sender" end of the socket, so
> it's going to be waiting forever for a state change that won't arrive.
Adding bluetooth and wireless lists. Dave, please consult MAINTAINERS when
asking questions like this, thanks!
On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 04:13:50PM -0500, David Miller wrote:
> From: Dave Jones <[email protected]>
> Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 16:11:25 -0500
>
> > Is shutdown() allowed to block indefinitely ? The man page doesn't say either way,
> > and I've noticed that my fuzz tester occasionally hangs for days spinning in bt_sock_wait_state()
> >
> > Is there something I should be doing to guarantee that this operation
> > will either time out, or return instantly ?
> >
> > In this specific case, I doubt anything is on the "sender" end of the socket, so
> > it's going to be waiting forever for a state change that won't arrive.
>
> Adding bluetooth and wireless lists. Dave, please consult MAINTAINERS when
> asking questions like this, thanks!
I don't have an authoritative answer. I do, however, seem to recall
that trying to shutdown a SunOS box with a hung NFS mount would seem
to hang forever. I don't think that is a great metric for how we
should behave, of course...
John
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