linux/net
Marcel Holtmann a67e899cf3 Bluetooth: Fix issue with sysfs handling for connections
Due to a semantic changes in flush_workqueue() the current approach of
synchronizing the sysfs handling for connections doesn't work anymore. The
whole approach is actually fully broken and based on assumptions that are
no longer valid.

With the introduction of Simple Pairing support, the creation of low-level
ACL links got changed. This change invalidates the reason why in the past
two independent work queues have been used for adding/removing sysfs
devices. The adding of the actual sysfs device is now postponed until the
host controller successfully assigns an unique handle to that link. So
the real synchronization happens inside the controller and not the host.

The only left-over problem is that some internals of the sysfs device
handling are not initialized ahead of time. This leaves potential access
to invalid data and can cause various NULL pointer dereferences. To fix
this a new function makes sure that all sysfs details are initialized
when an connection attempt is made. The actual sysfs device is only
registered when the connection has been successfully established. To
avoid a race condition with the registration, the check if a device is
registered has been moved into the removal work.

As an extra protection two flush_work() calls are left in place to
make sure a previous add/del work has been completed first.

Based on a report by Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Tested-by: Justin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Roger Quadros <ext-roger.quadros@nokia.com>
Tested-by: Marc Pignat <marc.pignat@hevs.ch>
2009-05-04 14:29:02 -07:00
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9p 9p: fix sparse warning: cast adds address space 2009-02-26 23:13:32 -08:00
802 tr: fix leakage of device in net/802/tr.c 2009-04-11 01:43:17 -07:00
8021q vlan: update vlan carrier state for admin up/down 2009-04-25 18:03:35 -07:00
appletalk proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
atm Subject: [PATCH] br2684: restore net_dev initialization 2009-05-02 13:49:36 -07:00
ax25 ax25: proc uid file misses header 2009-04-20 02:14:59 -07:00
bluetooth Bluetooth: Fix issue with sysfs handling for connections 2009-05-04 14:29:02 -07:00
bridge netfilter: bridge: allow fragmentation of VLAN packets traversing a bridge 2009-04-20 17:12:35 +02:00
can can: Network Drop Monitor: Make use of consume_skb() in af_can.c 2009-04-17 01:38:46 -07:00
core net: Fix skb_tx_hash() for forwarding workloads. 2009-05-01 09:05:06 -07:00
dcb DCB: fix kfree(skb) 2009-01-04 17:29:21 -08:00
dccp dccp: Do not let initial option overhead shrink the MPS 2009-03-02 03:07:23 -08:00
decnet net/*: use linux/kernel.h swap() 2009-03-21 13:36:17 -07:00
dsa dsa: add switch chip cascading support 2009-03-21 19:06:54 -07:00
econet net: convert usage of packet_type to read_mostly 2009-03-10 05:22:43 -07:00
ethernet eth: Declare an optimized compare_ether_addr_64bits() function 2008-11-23 23:24:32 -08:00
ipv4 tcp: Fix tcp_prequeue() to get correct rto_min value 2009-05-04 11:11:01 -07:00
ipv6 netfilter: revised locking for x_tables 2009-04-28 22:36:33 -07:00
ipx ipx: use constant for strings and desciptor 2009-03-21 19:06:51 -07:00
irda proc tty: switch ircomm to ->proc_fops 2009-04-01 08:59:10 -07:00
iucv af_iucv: Fix race when queuing incoming iucv messages 2009-04-21 23:43:15 -07:00
key af_key: remove some pointless conditionals before kfree_skb() 2009-02-26 23:07:32 -08:00
lapb
llc proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
mac80211 mac80211: default to automatic power control 2009-04-29 16:48:33 -04:00
netfilter xt_socket: checks for the state of nf_conntrack 2009-05-01 15:23:10 -07:00
netlabel netlabel: Always remove the correct address selector 2009-04-22 00:46:09 -07:00
netlink Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/ 2009-03-26 15:23:24 -07:00
netrom net/netrom: Fix socket locking 2009-04-22 00:49:51 -07:00
packet packet: avoid warnings when high-order page allocation fails 2009-04-15 03:39:52 -07:00
phonet trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts 2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
rds RDS: Use spinlock to protect 64b value update on 32b archs 2009-04-02 00:52:22 -07:00
rfkill net/rfkill/rfkill.c: fix unused rfkill_led_trigger() warning 2009-01-04 17:11:24 -08:00
rose Revert "rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c" 2009-04-14 20:28:00 -07:00
rxrpc RxRPC: Fix a potential NULL dereference 2009-02-06 21:50:52 -08:00
sched net: Only store high 16 bits of kernel generated filter priorities 2009-05-02 13:48:32 -07:00
sctp proc 2/2: remove struct proc_dir_entry::owner 2009-03-31 01:14:44 +04:00
sunrpc Merge branch 'for-2.6.30' of git://linux-nfs.org/~bfields/linux 2009-04-06 13:25:56 -07:00
tipc tipc: fix non-const printf format arguments 2009-03-18 19:11:29 -07:00
unix New helper - current_umask() 2009-03-31 23:00:26 -04:00
wanrouter wanrouter: fix sparse warnings: context imbalance 2009-02-26 23:13:36 -08:00
wimax trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts 2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
wireless nl80211: Make nl80211_send_mlme_event() atomic 2009-04-20 16:36:26 -04:00
x25 af_rose/x25: Sanity check the maximum user frame size 2009-03-27 00:28:21 -07:00
xfrm xfrm: wrong hash value for temporary SA 2009-04-27 02:58:59 -07:00
compat.c net: socket infrastructure for SO_TIMESTAMPING 2009-02-15 22:43:35 -08:00
Kconfig trivial: fix typos/grammar errors in Kconfig texts 2009-03-30 15:22:01 +02:00
Makefile RDS: Kconfig and Makefile 2009-02-26 23:43:35 -08:00
nonet.c
socket.c Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2009-04-06 18:05:43 -07:00
sysctl_net.c net: sysctl_net - use net_eq to compare nets 2009-03-16 16:23:30 +01:00
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