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SubjectRe: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_serdev: Init hci_uart proto_lock to avoid oops
On Mon, Dec 11, 2017 at 1:49 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 10:07 PM, Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> wrote:
>> Hi Lukas,
>>
>>> John Stultz reports a boot time crash with the HiKey board (which uses
>>> hci_serdev) occurring in hci_uart_tx_wakeup(). That function is
>>> contained in hci_ldisc.c, but also called from the newer hci_serdev.c.
>>> It acquires the proto_lock in struct hci_uart and it turns out that we
>>> forgot to init the lock in the serdev code path, thus causing the crash.
>>>
>>> John bisected the crash to commit 67d2f8781b9f ("Bluetooth: hci_ldisc:
>>> Allow sleeping while proto locks are held"), but the issue was present
>>> before and the commit merely exposed it. (Perhaps by luck, the crash
>>> did not occur with rwlocks.)
>>>
>>> Init the proto_lock in the serdev code path to avoid the oops.
>>>
> [snip]
>> patch has been applied to bluetooth-next tree.
>
> Sorry to be a nuisance if its just a timing thing, but I wanted to
> follow up on this just to make sure it didn't fall through the cracks,
> as I noticed w/ -rc3 it hasn't landed yet.

Happy new year all,
Just wanted to send another ping on this as it seems it hasn't made
it into -rc6. Did this get missed as being tagged as a (at least
functional) regression fix?

thanks
-john

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