Bug 1060457

Summary: Bluetooth RFCOMM: Transport endpoint not connected (kernel regression)
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Rob Riggs <rob+redhat>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED EOL QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 19CC: ecdpalma, gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda
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Description Rob Riggs 2014-02-01 21:59:14 UTC
Description of problem:

With the latest 3.12.6 and 3.12.8 kernels, some Bluetooth RFCOMM connections fail with "Transport endpoint not connected" after a Bluetooth connection is established.  Rebooting into a 3.11.10 kernel makes the problem go away.

This is regression in the kernel Bluetooth support.

This occurs with avrdude and pyserial code that connects to an Arduino over Bluetooth HC-05 adapter.  Cutecom and Minicom work OK, but the connection takes many (3-5) seconds to establish, when in the past it was nearly instantaneous.  The same pyserial and avrdude code works on older kernels and on Windows.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.12.6, 3.12.8

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Pair an RFCOMM device
2. rfcomm bind 0
3. Run the following Python code (requires pyserial)

#!/usr/bin/env python

from serial import Serial, SerialException
import time

try:
    # Do or do not; there is no try (here we "do not" under 3.12.8)
    print "Connecting..."
    s = Serial("/dev/rfcomm0", 115200, timeout=.1)
    print "Writing..."
    s.write("foo")
    print "Reading..."
    s.read()
except SerialException, ex:
    print ex

try:
    # Repeat Yoda's words of wisdom
    print "Connecting..."
    s = Serial("/dev/rfcomm0", 115200, timeout=.1)
    time.sleep(5) # Magic kernel-3.12.8 RFCOMM incantation
    print "Writing..."
    s.write("foo")
    print "Reading..."
    s.read()
except SerialException, ex:
    print ex
 

Actual results:
First one fails, resulting in "write failed: [Errno 107] Transport endpoint is not connected"; the second one succeeds.

Expected results:
Both succeed.  The need for the 5 second sleep is bogus.  As soon as a file descriptor is returned, it should be immediately usable.

Additional info:

Comment 1 Rob Riggs 2014-02-05 01:38:25 UTC
Please try the patch proposed in this thread:

http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.bluez.kernel/42303

Patch here:
http://cache.gmane.org//gmane/linux/bluez/kernel/42336-001.bin

Comment 2 Justin M. Forbes 2014-03-10 14:50:20 UTC
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 19 kernel bugs.

Fedora 19 has now been rebased to 3.13.5-100.fc19.  Please test this kernel update and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 3 Rob Riggs 2014-03-11 01:20:07 UTC
This is not a stale bug.  This problem still exists in the 3.13.5 kernel.  I still must use a 3.11 kernel if I wish to use Bluetooth SPP.

Comment 4 Rob Riggs 2014-03-23 16:48:30 UTC
Still exists in kernel-3.13.6-100.fc19.x86_64

Anyone else paying attention to this problem except for me?  Broken Bluetooth SPP/RFCOMM support for 2 months seems like it should be a bigger deal.

You cannot send ENOTCONN for a non-blocking call.  The proper response is EAGAIN or EWOULDBLOCK.

Comment 5 Justin M. Forbes 2014-05-21 19:30:31 UTC
*********** MASS BUG UPDATE **************

We apologize for the inconvenience.  There is a large number of bugs to go through and several of them have gone stale.  Due to this, we are doing a mass bug update across all of the Fedora 19 kernel bugs.

Fedora 19 has now been rebased to 3.14.4-100.fc19.  Please test this kernel update (or newer) and let us know if you issue has been resolved or if it is still present with the newer kernel.

If you have moved on to Fedora 20, and are still experiencing this issue, please change the version to Fedora 20.

If you experience different issues, please open a new bug report for those.

Comment 6 Rob Riggs 2014-06-14 15:02:16 UTC
This appears to be fixed in 3.14.4-100.fc19.  Can someone point to a Kernel commit where this was fixed?  I've been following the Bluetooth kernel commits and do not see one explicitly for this.

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