Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: purge unhandled skbs

[Takashi Iwai]

On Fri, 08 Apr 2016 19:23:45 +0200,
Marcel Holtmann wrote:
> 
> Hi Jiri,
> 
> > The write handler allocates skbs and queues them into data->readq.
> > Read side should read them, if there is any. If there is none, skbs
> > should be dropped by hdev->flush. But this happens only if the device
> > is HCI_UP, i.e. hdev->power_on work was triggered already. When it was
> > not, skbs stay allocated in the queue when /dev/vhci is closed. So
> > purge the queue in ->release.
> > 
> > Program to reproduce:
> > 	#include <err.h>
> > 	#include <fcntl.h>
> > 	#include <stdio.h>
> > 	#include <unistd.h>
> > 
> > 	#include <sys/stat.h>
> > 	#include <sys/types.h>
> > 	#include <sys/uio.h>
> > 
> > 	int main()
> > 	{
> > 		char buf[] = { 0xff, 0 };
> > 		struct iovec iov = {
> > 			.iov_base = buf,
> > 			.iov_len = sizeof(buf),
> > 		};
> > 		int fd;
> > 
> > 		while (1) {
> > 			fd = open("/dev/vhci", O_RDWR);
> > 			if (fd < 0)
> > 				err(1, "open");
> > 
> > 			usleep(50);
> > 
> > 			if (writev(fd, &iov, 1) < 0)
> > 				err(1, "writev");
> > 
> > 			usleep(50);
> > 
> > 			close(fd);
> > 		}
> > 
> > 		return 0;
> > 	}
> > 
> > Result:
> > kmemleak: 4609 new suspected memory leaks
> > unreferenced object 0xffff88059f4d5440 (size 232):
> >  comm "vhci", pid 1084, jiffies 4294912542 (age 37569.296s)
> >  hex dump (first 32 bytes):
> >    20 f0 23 87 05 88 ff ff 20 f0 23 87 05 88 ff ff   .#..... .#.....
> >    00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................
> >  backtrace:
> > ...
> >    [<ffffffff81ece010>] __alloc_skb+0x0/0x5a0
> >    [<ffffffffa021886c>] vhci_create_device+0x5c/0x580 [hci_vhci]
> >    [<ffffffffa0219436>] vhci_write+0x306/0x4c8 [hci_vhci]
> > 
> > Fixes: 23424c0d31 (Bluetooth: Add support creating virtual AMP controllers)
> > Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: <linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: stable 3.13+ <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c | 1 +
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.

Could you check another race of vhci mentioned in the thread?
  https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg1106134.html

If the suggested fix is OK, I'll submit a properly cooked patch.


thanks,

Takashi