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Bluetooth: Fix deadlock in the ERTM logic
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The Enhanced Retransmission Mode(ERTM) is a realiable mode of operation
of the Bluetooth L2CAP layer. Think on it like a simplified version of
TCP.
The problem we were facing here was a deadlock. ERTM uses a backlog
queue to queue incomimg packets while the user is helding the lock. At
some moment the sk_sndbuf can be exceeded and we can't alloc new skbs
then the code sleep with the lock to wait for memory, that stalls the
ERTM connection once we can't read the acknowledgements packets in the
backlog queue to free memory and make the allocation of outcoming skb
successful.

This patch actually affect all users of bt_skb_send_alloc(), i.e., all
L2CAP modes and SCO.

We are safe against socket states changes or channels deletion while the
we are sleeping wait memory. Checking for the sk->sk_err and
sk->sk_shutdown make the code safe, since any action that can leave the
socket or the channel in a not usable state set one of the struct
members at least. Then we can check both of them when getting the lock
again and return with the proper error if something unexpected happens.

Signed-off-by: Gustavo F. Padovan <padovan@profusion.mobi>
Signed-off-by: Ulisses Furquim <ulisses@profusion.mobi>
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Gustavo F. Padovan committed Sep 30, 2010
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Expand Up @@ -161,12 +161,30 @@ static inline struct sk_buff *bt_skb_send_alloc(struct sock *sk, unsigned long l
{
struct sk_buff *skb;

release_sock(sk);
if ((skb = sock_alloc_send_skb(sk, len + BT_SKB_RESERVE, nb, err))) {
skb_reserve(skb, BT_SKB_RESERVE);
bt_cb(skb)->incoming = 0;
}
lock_sock(sk);

if (!skb && *err)
return NULL;

*err = sock_error(sk);
if (*err)
goto out;

if (sk->sk_shutdown) {
*err = -ECONNRESET;
goto out;
}

return skb;

out:
kfree_skb(skb);
return NULL;
}

int bt_err(__u16 code);
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