[PATCH] work around for l2cap NULL dereference in l2cap_conn_start

From: David Fries
Date: Sun Feb 20 2011 - 23:44:17 EST


bt_sk(sk)->parent can be NULL in l2cap_conn_start in state BT_CONNECT2
at least when a headset device pairs and the play button was pressed
right before pairing.

Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@xxxxxxxxx>
---
I removed the printk, can this be merged to the bluetooth next tree?

On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 03:40:46PM -0600, Andrei Warkentin wrote:
> FWIW still need it in 2.6.36.

Andrei, I'm curious, what's your hardware hardware and bluetooth
device that's trigginer the crash?

> On Mon, Feb 14, 2011 at 8:56 AM, Gustavo F. Padovan
> <padovan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi David,
> >
> > * David Fries <david@xxxxxxxxx> [2011-02-10 21:53:09 -0600]:
> >
> >> Here's a patch to avoid a very repeatable crash in the N900. If I
> >> take a Motorola S305 bluetooth headset that was previously paried with
> >> the N900, turn it on, and press the play button before the headphones
> >> automatically pair with the cell phone, the N900 will crash (and
> >> reboot) in pairing. If I wait until after they have paired there
> >> isn't any problem. The patch is against the kernel-power
> >> 2.6.28-maemo46 by Thomas Tanner, the stock Nokia PR1.2 oops looked
> >> the same, I just haven't gone back to that kernel.
> >
> > This is a very old kernel. You need to check this issue against
> > bluetooth-next-2.6.

net/bluetooth/l2cap.c | 3 ++-
1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap.c
index ed83c1f..a7aa4d9 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap.c
@@ -408,7 +408,8 @@ static void l2cap_conn_start(struct l2cap_conn *conn)
struct sock *parent = bt_sk(sk)->parent;
rsp.result = cpu_to_le16(L2CAP_CR_PEND);
rsp.status = cpu_to_le16(L2CAP_CS_AUTHOR_PEND);
- parent->sk_data_ready(parent, 0);
+ if(parent)
+ parent->sk_data_ready(parent,0);

} else {
sk->sk_state = BT_CONFIG;
--
1.7.2.3

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