Return-Path: Message-ID: <1331228722.14217.7.camel@aeonflux> Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] bluetooth: hci_ldisc: fix NULL-pointer dereference on tty_close From: Marcel Holtmann To: Johan Hovold Cc: "Gustavo F. Padovan" , "David S. Miller" , linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org, stable Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2012 09:45:22 -0800 In-Reply-To: <20120308115721.GB4497@localhost> References: <1331136120-27075-1-git-send-email-jhovold@gmail.com> <1331136120-27075-2-git-send-email-jhovold@gmail.com> <1331148797.3392.191.camel@aeonflux> <20120308115721.GB4497@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Johan, > > > Do not close protocol driver until device has been unregistered. > > > > > > This fixes a race between tty_close and hci_dev_open which can result in > > > a NULL-pointer dereference. > > > > > > The line discipline closes the protocol driver while we may still have > > > hci_dev_open sleeping on the req_lock mutex resulting in a NULL-pointer > > > dereference when lock is acquired and hci_init_req called. > > [...] > > > what kernel version is this against? Our changes in bluetooth-next fixed > > some of the destruct handling. > > This is against the latest rc as it needs to be fixed in 3.3, but I > missed a dependency to bluetooth-next as you point out below. > > > Also hci_unregister_dev should be calling the destruct handler and thus > > your change is now accessing hu but it got freed already. > > You're right, my patch depends on 010666a126fc ("Bluetooth: Make > hci-destruct callback optional") and 797fe796c4 ("Bluetooth: uart-ldisc: > Fix memory leak and remove destruct cb") from bluetooth-next. > > But since the latter one fixes a memory leak it should have been marked > for stable as well as pushed to Linus for 3.3, right? we need to look into this and propose patches for -stable. Is your problem still present with bluetooth-next or not? Regards Marcel