1. 17 Apr, 2013 1 commit
    • David Herrmann's avatar
      Bluetooth: remove unneeded hci_conn_hold/put_device() · fc225c3f
      David Herrmann authored
      hci_conn_hold/put_device() is used to control when hci_conn->dev is no
      longer needed and can be deleted from the system. Lets first look how they
      are currently used throughout the code (excluding HIDP!).
      
      All code that uses hci_conn_hold_device() looks like this:
          ...
          hci_conn_hold_device();
          hci_conn_add_sysfs();
          ...
      On the other side, hci_conn_put_device() is exclusively used in
      hci_conn_del().
      
      So, considering that hci_conn_del() must not be called twice (which would
      fail horribly), we know that hci_conn_put_device() is only called _once_
      (which is in hci_conn_del()).
      On the other hand, hci_conn_add_sysfs() must not be called twice, either
      (it would call device_add twice, which breaks the device, see
      drivers/base/core.c). So we know that hci_conn_hold_device() is also
      called only once (it's only called directly before hci_conn_add_sysfs()).
      
      So hold and put are known to be called only once. That means we can safely
      remove them and directly call hci_conn_del_sysfs() in hci_conn_del().
      
      But there is one issue left: HIDP also uses hci_conn_hold/put_device().
      However, this case can be ignored and simply removed as it is totally
      broken. The issue is, the only thing HIDP delays with
      hci_conn_hold_device() is the removal of the hci_conn->dev from sysfs.
      But, the hci_conn device has no mechanism to get notified when its own
      parent (hci_dev) gets removed from sysfs. hci_dev_hold/put() does _not_
      control when it is removed but only when the device object is created
      and destroyed.
      And hci_dev calls hci_conn_flush_*() when it removes itself from sysfs,
      which itself causes hci_conn_del() to be called, but it does _not_ cause
      hci_conn_del_sysfs() to be called, which is wrong.
      
      Hence, we fix it to call hci_conn_del_sysfs() in hci_conn_del(). This
      guarantees that a hci_conn object is removed from sysfs _before_ its
      parent hci_dev is removed.
      
      The changes to HIDP look scary, wrong and broken. However, if you look at
      the HIDP session management, you will notice they're already broken in the
      exact _same_ way (ever tried "unplugging" HIDP devices? Breaks _all_ the
      time).
      So this patch only makes HIDP look _scary_ and _obviously broken_. It does
      not break HIDP itself, it already is!
      
      See later patches in this series which fix HIDP to use proper
      session-management.
      Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid Herrmann <dh.herrmann@gmail.com>
      Acked-by: default avatarMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
      Signed-off-by: default avatarGustavo Padovan <gustavo.padovan@collabora.co.uk>
      fc225c3f
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