[3.8.y.z extended stable] Patch "Bluetooth: Allow change security level on ATT_CID in slave role" has been added to staging queue

[Kamal Mostafa]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    Bluetooth: Allow change security level on ATT_CID in slave role

to the linux-3.8.y-queue branch of the 3.8.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.8.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 3.8.13.27.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.8.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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From: Marcin Kraglak <marcin.kraglak at tieto.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 14:08:22 +0200
Subject: Bluetooth: Allow change security level on ATT_CID in slave role

commit 92d1372e1a9fec00e146b74e8b9ad7a385b9b37f upstream.

Kernel supports SMP Security Request so don't block increasing security
when we are slave.

Signed-off-by: Marcin Kraglak <marcin.kraglak at tieto.com>
Acked-by: Johan Hedberg <johan.hedberg at intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel at holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 5 -----
 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
index 59011c4..a166b26 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
@@ -625,11 +625,6 @@ static int l2cap_sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,

 		/*change security for LE channels */
 		if (chan->scid == L2CAP_CID_LE_DATA) {
-			if (!conn->hcon->out) {
-				err = -EINVAL;
-				break;
-			}
-
 			if (smp_conn_security(conn->hcon, sec.level))
 				break;
 			sk->sk_state = BT_CONFIG;
--
1.9.1