Bluetooth: Add extra device reference counting for connections

The device model itself has no real usable reference counting at the
moment and this causes problems if parents are deleted before their
children. The device model itself handles the memory details of this
correctly, but the uevent order is not consistent. This causes various
problems for systems like HAL or even X.

So until device_put() does a proper cleanup, the device for Bluetooth
connection will be protected with an extra reference counting to ensure
the correct order of uevents when connections are terminated.

This is not an automatic feature. Higher Bluetooth layers like HIDP or
BNEP should grab this new reference to ensure that their uevents are
send before the ones from the parent device.

Based on a report by Brian Rogers <brian@xyzw.org>

Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

1 files changed, 16 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
index fa47d5d84f5c..a9750984f772 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
@@ -246,6 +246,8 @@ struct hci_conn *hci_conn_add(struct hci_dev *hdev, int type, bdaddr_t *dst)
         if (hdev->notify)
                 hdev->notify(hdev, HCI_NOTIFY_CONN_ADD);
 
+        atomic_set(&conn->devref, 0);
+
         hci_conn_init_sysfs(conn);
 
         tasklet_enable(&hdev->tx_task);
@@ -288,7 +290,7 @@ int hci_conn_del(struct hci_conn *conn)
 
         skb_queue_purge(&conn->data_q);
 
-        hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn);
+        hci_conn_put_device(conn);
 
         hci_dev_put(hdev);
 
@@ -583,6 +585,19 @@ void hci_conn_check_pending(struct hci_dev *hdev)
         hci_dev_unlock(hdev);
 }
 
+void hci_conn_hold_device(struct hci_conn *conn)
+{
+        atomic_inc(&conn->devref);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(hci_conn_hold_device);
+
+void hci_conn_put_device(struct hci_conn *conn)
+{
+        if (atomic_dec_and_test(&conn->devref))
+                hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL(hci_conn_put_device);
+
 int hci_get_conn_list(void __user *arg)
 {
         struct hci_conn_list_req req, *cl;