Bluetooth: Use proper nesting annotation for l2cap_chan lock

By default lockdep considers all L2CAP channels equal. This would mean
that we get warnings if a channel is locked when another one's lock is
tried to be acquired in the same thread. This kind of inter-channel
locking dependencies exist in the form of parent-child channels as well
as any channel wishing to elevate the security by requesting procedures
on the SMP channel.

To eliminate the chance for these lockdep warnings we introduce a
nesting level for each channel and use that when acquiring the channel
lock. For now there exists the earlier mentioned three identified
categories: SMP, "normal" channels and parent channels (i.e. those in
BT_LISTEN state). The nesting level is defined as atomic_t since we need
access to it before the lock is actually acquired.

Signed-off-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>

2 files changed, 19 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
index ad1cf82fee02..f1a51564b8fd 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
@@ -285,6 +285,12 @@ static int l2cap_sock_listen(struct socket *sock, int backlog)
 	sk->sk_max_ack_backlog = backlog;
 	sk->sk_ack_backlog = 0;
 
+	/* Listening channels need to use nested locking in order not to
+	 * cause lockdep warnings when the created child channels end up
+	 * being locked in the same thread as the parent channel.
+	 */
+	atomic_set(&chan->nesting, L2CAP_NESTING_PARENT);
+
 	chan->state = BT_LISTEN;
 	sk->sk_state = BT_LISTEN;
 
@@ -1497,6 +1503,9 @@ static void l2cap_sock_init(struct sock *sk, struct sock *parent)
 		l2cap_chan_set_defaults(chan);
 	}
 
+	/* Set default lock nesting level */
+	atomic_set(&chan->nesting, L2CAP_NESTING_NORMAL);
+
 	/* Default config options */
 	chan->flush_to = L2CAP_DEFAULT_FLUSH_TO;
 
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/smp.c b/net/bluetooth/smp.c
index 3d38553eb526..3b63c7f09dd5 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/smp.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/smp.c
@@ -1658,6 +1658,13 @@ static inline struct l2cap_chan *smp_new_conn_cb(struct l2cap_chan *pchan)
 	chan->omtu	= pchan->omtu;
 	chan->mode	= pchan->mode;
 
+	/* Other L2CAP channels may request SMP routines in order to
+	 * change the security level. This means that the SMP channel
+	 * lock must be considered in its own category to avoid lockdep
+	 * warnings.
+	 */
+	atomic_set(&chan->nesting, L2CAP_NESTING_SMP);
+
 	BT_DBG("created chan %p", chan);
 
 	return chan;
@@ -1715,6 +1722,9 @@ int smp_register(struct hci_dev *hdev)
 	chan->imtu = L2CAP_DEFAULT_MTU;
 	chan->ops = &smp_root_chan_ops;
 
+	/* Set correct nesting level for a parent/listening channel */
+	atomic_set(&chan->nesting, L2CAP_NESTING_PARENT);
+
 	hdev->smp_data = chan;
 
 	return 0;