[PATCH] Bluetooth: avoid recursive locking in hci_send_to_channel()

From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
Date: Thu Sep 21 2017 - 09:51:41 EST


Mart reported a deadlock in -RT in the call path:
hci_send_monitor_ctrl_event() -> hci_send_to_channel()

because both functions acquire the same read lock hci_sk_list.lock. This
is also a mainline issue because the qrwlock implementation is writer
fair (the traditional rwlock implementation is reader biased).

To avoid the deadlock there is now __hci_send_to_channel() which expects
the readlock to be held.

Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@xxxxxxxxx>
Fixes: 38ceaa00d02d ("Bluetooth: Add support for sending MGMT commands and events to monitor")
Reported-by: Mart van de Wege <mvdwege@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 17 +++++++++++------
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
index 638bf0e1a2e3..f1ee820d871c 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
@@ -251,15 +251,13 @@ void hci_send_to_sock(struct hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb)
}

/* Send frame to sockets with specific channel */
-void hci_send_to_channel(unsigned short channel, struct sk_buff *skb,
- int flag, struct sock *skip_sk)
+static void __hci_send_to_channel(unsigned short channel, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ int flag, struct sock *skip_sk)
{
struct sock *sk;

BT_DBG("channel %u len %d", channel, skb->len);

- read_lock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
-
sk_for_each(sk, &hci_sk_list.head) {
struct sk_buff *nskb;

@@ -285,6 +283,13 @@ void hci_send_to_channel(unsigned short channel, struct sk_buff *skb,
kfree_skb(nskb);
}

+}
+
+void hci_send_to_channel(unsigned short channel, struct sk_buff *skb,
+ int flag, struct sock *skip_sk)
+{
+ read_lock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
+ __hci_send_to_channel(channel, skb, flag, skip_sk);
read_unlock(&hci_sk_list.lock);
}

@@ -388,8 +393,8 @@ void hci_send_monitor_ctrl_event(struct hci_dev *hdev, u16 event,
hdr->index = index;
hdr->len = cpu_to_le16(skb->len - HCI_MON_HDR_SIZE);

- hci_send_to_channel(HCI_CHANNEL_MONITOR, skb,
- HCI_SOCK_TRUSTED, NULL);
+ __hci_send_to_channel(HCI_CHANNEL_MONITOR, skb,
+ HCI_SOCK_TRUSTED, NULL);
kfree_skb(skb);
}

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2.14.1