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Add a mutex to NimBLEAttValue - #1197
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Arrr, shared locks guard the value chest,
Atomic flags keep shutdown in quest.
Notifications sail on buffers bright,
Port events end the loop aright.
Semaphore crews now wait their turn,
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- Around line 37-41: Replace the unsynchronized lazy initialization guarded by
m_mutexInitialized in the attribute-value locking path with a synchronized
one-time lifecycle step that initializes m_mutex before concurrent use; preserve
the existing mutex acquisition behavior afterward.
- Line 136: In NimBLEServer::handleGattEvent, protect the access to val.data()
and val.size() during os_mbuf_append with NimBLEAttValue::Lock. Acquire the lock
before entering the hardware critical section and keep it held until the append
completes.
Review comments at @src/NimBLEAttValue.h:
- Line 113: Update NimBLEAttValue::deinitMutex to reset m_mutexInitialized as
part of mutex teardown, so a later NimBLEDevice::init() reinitializes the mutex
before Lock() uses it.
- Around line 105-115: Add the appropriate NimBLE NPL header include to
NimBLEAttValue.h before the Lock declaration when CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_ENABLED is
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- Around line 39-43: Update NimBLEAttValue::Lock to track whether its
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- Around line 111-141: Update the Lock class to track mutex acquisition per
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- Around line 136-139: Update NimBLEAttValue::Lock::deinit so it does not
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teardown until all holders and waiters have finished, then deinitialize the
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🟡 Minor · Fail initialization when the value lock cannot initialize, matey. · NimBLEDevice.cpp:1017-1024
src/NimBLEDevice.cpp:1017-1024
🩺 Stability & Availability | 🟡 Minor | ⚡ Quick winFail initialization when the value lock cannot initialize, matey.
When
NimBLEAttValue::Lock::init()returns false, value operations skip the mutex.NimBLEDevice::init()still setsm_initializedand returns true. Calldeinit(false)and return false so the stack stops without deleting retained objects.Suggested fix
if ((!NimBLEAttValue::Lock::init())) { NIMBLE_LOGE(LOG_TAG, "Failed to initialize NimBLEAttValue lock, value operations may not be thread-safe"); + deinit(false); + return false; }🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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- Around line 129-133: Update NimBLEAttValue::Lock::init() to serialize
concurrent initialization with a non-allocating atomic guard around the
initialized check and ble_npl_mutex_init() call, preventing multiple mutex
allocations. Keep allocation outside any critical section and update the
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- Around line 1017-1024: Update NimBLEDevice::init() so that if
NimBLEAttValue::Lock::init() fails, it calls deinit(false) and returns false
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- Around line 121-123: Update the constructor’s m_activeCount.fetch_add and
m_initialized.load operations, plus the deinit() m_initialized.store and
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- Line 115: Define the static atomic member NimBLEAttValue::Lock::m_activeCount
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- Around line 898-901: Move NimBLEAttValue::Lock::init() from before
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- Around line 350-355: Update nimble_port_stop to return the
unsupported-operation error BLE_HS_ENOTSUP instead of reporting success while
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* Make deepCopy return whether memory allocation and copying succeeded. * Add copyFrom to expose that result to callers. * Allocate notification values using the full mbuf packet length, with BLE_ATT_ATTR_MAX_LEN as the maximum. * Reject oversized notifications and report temporary-buffer allocation or characteristic-value copy failures as insufficient resources. * Reassemble notification data before updating the characteristic value or invoking its callback.
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