hci_ldisc: fix null pointer deref

Arjan:

  With the help of kerneloops.org I've spotted a nice little interaction
  between the TTY layer and the bluetooth code, however the tty layer is not
  something I'm all too familiar with so I rather ask than brute-force fix the
  code incorrectly.

  The raw details are at:
  http://www.kerneloops.org/search.php?search=uart_flush_buffer

  What happens is that, on closing the bluetooth tty, the tty layer goes
  into the release_dev() function, which first does a bunch of stuff, then
  sets the file->private_data to NULL, does some more stuff and then calls the
  ldisc close function.  Which in this case, is hci_uart_tty_close().

  Now, hci_uart_tty_close() calls hci_uart_close() which clears some
  internal bit, and then calls hci_uart_flush()...  which calls back to the
  tty layers' uart_flush_buffer() function.  (in drivers/bluetooth/hci_tty.c
  around line 194) Which then WARN_ON()'s because that's not allowed/supposed
  to be called this late in the shutdown of the port....

  Should the bluetooth driver even call this flush function at all??

David:

  This seems to be what happens: Hci_uart_close() flushes using
  hci_uart_flush().  Subsequently, in hci_dev_do_close(), (one step in
  hci_unregister_dev()), hci_uart_flush() is called again.  The comment in
  uart_flush_buffer(), relating to the WARN_ON(), indicates you can't flush
  after the port is closed; which sounds reasonable.  I think hci_uart_close()
  should set hdev->flush to NULL before returning.  Hci_dev_do_close() does
  check for this.  The code path is rather involved and I'm not entirely clear
  of all steps, but I think that's what should be done.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

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