Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_qca: Use del_timer_sync() before freeing

[Guenter Roeck]

On Mon, Apr 04, 2022 at 05:22:00PM -0700, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 
> On 4/4/22 15:22, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > [ Resending due to cut and paste failure of email address ]
> > 
> > From: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > While looking at a crash report on a timer list being corrupted, which
> > usually happens when a timer is freed while still active. This is
> > commonly triggered by code calling del_timer() instead of
> > del_timer_sync() just before freeing.
> > 
> > One possible culprit is the hci_qca driver, which does exactly that.
> > 
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Fixes: 0ff252c1976da ("Bluetooth: hciuart: Add support QCA chipset for
> > UART") Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c
> > index f6e91fb432a3..73a8c72b5aae 100644
> > --- a/drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c
> > +++ b/drivers/bluetooth/hci_qca.c
> > @@ -696,8 +696,8 @@ static int qca_close(struct hci_uart *hu)
> >   	skb_queue_purge(&qca->tx_wait_q);
> >   	skb_queue_purge(&qca->txq);
> >   	skb_queue_purge(&qca->rx_memdump_q);
> > -	del_timer(&qca->tx_idle_timer);
> > -	del_timer(&qca->wake_retrans_timer);
> > +	del_timer_sync(&qca->tx_idle_timer);
> > +	del_timer_sync(&qca->wake_retrans_timer);
> 
> 
> It seems the wake_retrans_timer could be re-armed from a work queue.
> 
> So perhaps we need to make sure qca->workqueue is destroyed
> 
> before these del_timer_sync() calls ?
> 
> >   	destroy_workqueue(qca->workqueue);
> 
> 
> ie move this destroy_workqueue() up ?
> 

What prevents the timer code from queueing work into the destroyed
workqueue ?

Thanks,
Guenter