Re: [Regression] Bluetooth RFComm: using it locks up the machine

From: Mark Lord
Date: Sun Mar 04 2007 - 12:55:55 EST


Mark Lord wrote:
Mark Lord wrote:
Any attempt to open/use a bluetooth rfcomm device locks up
scheduling completely on my machine.

Interrupts (ping, alt-sysrq) seem to be alive, but nothing else.

This was working fine in 2.6.20, broken now in 2.6.21-rc2-git*

Further info: Reverting this change (below) fixes it:

| author Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:58:57 +0000 (23:58 +0100)
| committer David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
| Mon, 26 Feb 2007 19:42:41 +0000 (11:42 -0800)
| commit c1a3313698895d8ad4760f98642007bf236af2e8
| tree 337a876f727061362b6a169f8759849c105b8f7a tree | snapshot
| parent f5ffd4620aba9e55656483ae1ef5c79ba81f5403 commit | diff
| | [Bluetooth] Make use of device_move() for RFCOMM TTY devices
| | In the case of bound RFCOMM TTY devices the parent is not available
| before its usage. So when opening a RFCOMM TTY device, move it to
| the corresponding ACL device as a child. When closing the device,
| move it back to the virtual device tree.
| Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
..

The lockup is happening inside the call to device_move(),
specifically in sysfs_move_dir() it loops here forever:

...
again:
mutex_lock(&old_parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
if (!mutex_trylock(&new_parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex)) {
mutex_unlock(&old_parent_dentry->d_inode->i_mutex);
goto again;
}
...

Screen-shot (photograph) from alt-sysrq-P is here:
http://rtr.ca/recent/rfcomm_pc.jpg

Cheers

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