Return-Path: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20170823235550.45934-1-mcchou@chromium.org> From: Sonny Sasaka Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2017 16:14:20 -0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH] adapter: Guard StartDiscovery and StopDiscovery with discovering check To: Luiz Augusto von Dentz Cc: Miao-chen Chou , "linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org" , Luiz Augusto Von Dentz , Shyh-In Hwang , Rahul Chaturvedi Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-bluetooth-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi Luiz, I am about to implement the async reply for StartDiscovery, then I realize that there is a case where this may cause dbus timeout if this happens several times: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/bluetooth/bluez.git/tree/src/adapter.c#n1456. Now I am not sure if async reply is suitable for this operation. What do you think? Thanks. On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 12:11 PM, Sonny Sasaka wrote: > Hi Luiz, > > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 1:30 AM, Luiz Augusto von Dentz > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 2:55 AM, wrote: >>> From: Miao-chen Chou >>> >>> There is a race condition where a start/stop discovery is requested before the >>> previous stop/start discovery finish, and checking the adapter->discovery_list >>> is insufficient to guard to race condition. For example, if start_discovery is >>> called right after stop discovery, the callback, stop_discovery_complete, may >>> not be called before calling start_discovery. Then start_discovery will >>> proceed and fail. >>> >>> Test steps: >>> Add delay in kernel for the stop discovery callback. >>> Check if the start discovery can happen before the completion of the previous >>> stop discovery, and the other way around. >>> >>> Please refer to https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=738237 >>> for more details. >> >> It is giving me: >> >> You do not have permission to view the requested page. >> >> Reason: User is not allowed to view this issue >> >>> --- >>> src/adapter.c | 26 +++++++++++++++++++++++--- >>> 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >>> >>> diff --git a/src/adapter.c b/src/adapter.c >>> index 83f38ddbe..395b430d2 100644 >>> --- a/src/adapter.c >>> +++ b/src/adapter.c >>> @@ -2119,20 +2119,30 @@ static DBusMessage *start_discovery(DBusConnection *conn, >>> struct btd_adapter *adapter = user_data; >>> const char *sender = dbus_message_get_sender(msg); >>> struct watch_client *client; >>> - bool is_discovering; >>> + bool discovery_client_exists; >> >> Don't really see why to change the name here. > > It's to prevent confusion between is_discovering and > adapter->discovering. But we can modify to follow your preference. > >> >>> DBG("sender %s", sender); >>> >>> if (!(adapter->current_settings & MGMT_SETTING_POWERED)) >>> return btd_error_not_ready(msg); >>> >>> - is_discovering = get_discovery_client(adapter, sender, &client); >>> + discovery_client_exists = get_discovery_client( >>> + adapter, sender, &client); >>> >>> /* >>> * Every client can only start one discovery, if the client >>> * already started a discovery then return an error. >>> */ >>> - if (is_discovering) >>> + if (discovery_client_exists) >>> + return btd_error_busy(msg); >>> + >>> + /* >>> + * adapter->discovery_list being empty but adapter->discovering being >>> + * true indicates that there is a stop discovery operation in progress. >>> + * Prevent a new start discovery request when the previous >>> + * stop discovery is in progress. >>> + */ >>> + if (!adapter->discovery_list && adapter->discovering) >> >> Perhaps we should delay the removal of a client if it is the last in >> the list, or actually both start and stop discovery need to wait their >> respective commands to complete before replying, that way the client >> can actually be sure it has started or stopped the discovery and we >> don't have to reply busy. > > I agree that we can wait to reply after the command is completed. But I think > we still need the busy error in case the client doesn't honor the > "wait until dbus reply" > protocol, otherwise bluetoothd will enter into a strange internal > state if it's not guarded. > What do you think? > >> >>> return btd_error_busy(msg); >>> >>> /* >>> @@ -2420,6 +2430,16 @@ static DBusMessage *stop_discovery(DBusConnection *conn, >>> if (!list) >>> return btd_error_failed(msg, "No discovery started"); >>> >>> + /* >>> + * adapter->discovery_list being not empty but adapter->discovering >>> + * being false indicates that there is a start discovery operation in >>> + * progress. >>> + * Prevent a new stop discovery request when the previous start >>> + * discovery is in progress. >>> + */ >>> + if (!adapter->discovering) >>> + return btd_error_busy(msg); >> >> Ditto. >> >>> client = list->data; >>> >>> cp.type = adapter->discovery_type; >>> -- >>> 2.14.1.342.g6490525c54-goog >>> >>> -- >>> To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-bluetooth" in >>> the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org >>> More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >> >> >> >> -- >> Luiz Augusto von Dentz