[PATCH 0/4] Bluetooth: hci_uart: various fixes

From: Boris Brezillon
Date: Fri Aug 19 2016 - 03:39:24 EST


Hi,

We recently faced some problems when using an BT uart chip interfaced
through the H5 proto (rtk_h5). Here are the logs of the 2 different
issues we had when closing the line discipline (actually, restoring
the previous one) [1][2]. I know the kernel is Tainted in those logs,
but after some investigations I found a few potential issues that might
explain what we're seeing.

Patches 1 and 2 are fixing 2 potential 'use after free' bugs: in some
(unlikely) cases the timer and work we try to cancel in the closing
path can be re-scheduled in our back, and since we're releasing the
memory region assigned to those elements at the end of the closing
procedure we can end-up with those invalid pointer exception when the
work or timer handler is called.

Note that this problem is pretty hard to reproduce, so I'm not sure
my patches are fixing all the racy paths.

Patches 3 and 4 are fixing potential issues that I didn't directly
face but may be worth fixing. Path 3 is fixing a potential double
free issue (proto->close() called twice if the hdev registration
failed). Patch 4 is making sure we don't loose some TX events.

Let me know what you think.

Thanks,

Boris

[1]http://code.bulix.org/8qtjly-105082
[2]http://code.bulix.org/qzur9n-105083


Boris Brezillon (4):
Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: fix a race in the hdev closing path
Bluetooth: hci_h5: fix a race in the closing path
Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: don't release resources in hci_uart_init_work()
Bluetooth: hci_ldisc: make sure we don't loose HCI_UART_TX_WAKEUP
events

drivers/bluetooth/hci_h5.c | 7 ++++++-
drivers/bluetooth/hci_ldisc.c | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
drivers/bluetooth/hci_uart.h | 1 +
3 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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