Re: [PATCH 3/5] Bluetooth: hci_event: Remove limit of 2 reconnection attempts

[Luiz Augusto von Dentz]

Hi Jonas,

On Sun, Jan 7, 2024 at 5:20 PM Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi Luiz,
>
> On 1/5/24 17:05, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> > Hi Jonas,
> >
> > On Fri, Jan 5, 2024 at 10:54 AM Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Luiz,
> >>
> >> On 1/3/24 17:05, Luiz Augusto von Dentz wrote:
> >>> Hi Jonas,
> >>>
> >>> On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:59 PM Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>> Since commit 4c67bc74f016b0d360b8573e18969c0ff7926974, we retry connecting
> >>>> later when we get a "Command Disallowed" error returned by "Create
> >>>> Connection".
> >>>>
> >>>> In this commit the intention was to retry only once, and give up if we see
> >>>> "Command Disallowed" again on the second try.
> >>>>
> >>>> This made sense back then when the retry was initiated *only* from the
> >>>> "Connect Complete" event. If we received that event, we knew that now the
> >>>> card now must have a "free slot" for a new connection request again. These
> >>>> days we call hci_conn_check_pending() from a few more places though, and
> >>>> in these places we can't really be sure that there's a "free slot" on the
> >>>> card, so the second try to "Create Connection" might fail again.
> >>>>
> >>>> Deal with this by being less strict about these retries and try again
> >>>> every time we get "Command Disallowed" errors, removing the limitation to
> >>>> only two attempts.
> >>>>
> >>>> Since this can potentially cause us to enter an endless cycle of
> >>>> reconnection attempts, we'll add some guarding against that with the next
> >>>> commit.
> >>>
> >>> Don't see where you are doing such guarding, besides you seem to
> >>> assume HCI_ERROR_COMMAND_DISALLOWED would always means the controller
> >>> is busy, or something like that, but it could perform the connection
> >>> later, but that may not always be the case, thus why I think
> >>> reconnecting just a few number of times is better, if you really need
> >>> to keep retrying then this needs to be controlled by a policy in
> >>> userspace not hardcoded in the kernel, well I can even argument that
> >>> perhaps the initial number of reconnection shall be configurable so
> >>> one don't have to recompile the kernel if that needs changing.
> >>
> >> Yes, fair enough, the next commit assumes that COMMAND_DISALLOWED always
> >> means busy. The guarding is that we stop retrying as soon as there's no
> >> (competing) ongoing connection attempt nor an active inquiry, which
> >> should eventually be the case no matter what, no?
> >>
> >> I agree it's probably still better to not rely on this fairly complex
> >> sanity check and keep the checking of attempts nonetheless.
> >>
> >> I think we could keep doing that if we check for
> >> !hci_conn_hash_lookup_state(hdev, ACL_LINK, BT_CONNECT) &&
> >> !test_bit(HCI_INQUIRY, &hdev->flags) in hci_conn_check_pending() before
> >> we actually retry, to make sure the retry counter doesn't get
> >> incremented wrongly. I'll give that a try.
> >
> > Perhaps I'm missing something, but it should be possible to block
> > concurrent access to HCI while a command is pending with use of
> > hci_cmd_sync, at least on LE we do that by waiting the connection
> > complete event so connection attempts are serialized but we don't seem
> > to be doing the same for BR/EDR.
> >
>
> That's a good point, it might even allow for a nice little cleanup
> because we can then cancel inquiries in hci_acl_create_connection()
> synchronously, too.
>
> Question is just whether there's any devices out there that actually do
> support paging with more than a single device at a time and if we want
> to support that?

I think the controller would serialize the paging anyway, so the fact
that we would serialize it on the host side might actually means that
we have a common behavior across controllers rather than having to
handle errors when the controller is not capable of serializing
connections by themselves.

> >
> >>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Jonas Dreßler <verdre@xxxxxxx>
> >>>> ---
> >>>>    net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 7 ++++---
> >>>>    1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >>>>
> >>>> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> >>>> index e8b4a0126..e1f5b6f90 100644
> >>>> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> >>>> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> >>>> @@ -2323,12 +2323,13 @@ static void hci_cs_create_conn(struct hci_dev *hdev, __u8 status)
> >>>>
> >>>>           if (status) {
> >>>>                   if (conn && conn->state == BT_CONNECT) {
> >>>> -                       if (status != HCI_ERROR_COMMAND_DISALLOWED || conn->attempt > 2) {
> >>>> +                       if (status == HCI_ERROR_COMMAND_DISALLOWED) {
> >>>> +                               conn->state = BT_CONNECT2;
> >>>> +                       } else {
> >>>>                                   conn->state = BT_CLOSED;
> >>>>                                   hci_connect_cfm(conn, status);
> >>>>                                   hci_conn_del(conn);
> >>>> -                       } else
> >>>> -                               conn->state = BT_CONNECT2;
> >>>> +                       }
> >>>>                   }
> >>>>           } else {
> >>>>                   if (!conn) {
> >>>> --
> >>>> 2.43.0
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >> Jonas
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > Luiz Augusto von Dentz



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