nRF52: gnrc_6lowpan_ble: memory leak with nordic_softdevice_ble #6018

jfbortolotti · 2016-10-29T13:01:20Z

In case of Tx conflict on the ble interface, the _send function of gnrc_nordic_ble_6lowpan.c will return an -EBUSY error but no one handling the GNRC_NETAPI_MSG_TYPE_SND will take care of the error and what needs to be done for the packet(free or requeue).
This packet will stay in the alloc buffer.
After some time, if such conflicts happened, the memory allocated will continue to grow till the gnrc packet buffer will be full.
This can be reproduced with the microcoap_server example and sending pings forever. At some point, the buffer will be full and the stack will not be able to handle the ping echo request and reply at all.

One easy workaround is to accept to loose packet when there is such conflict and freeing up the packet.
In https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/pkg/nordic_softdevice_ble/src/gnrc_nordic_ble_6lowpan.c#L139
add a call to release the gnrc packet buffer:
if (ble_mac_busy_tx) {
DEBUG("_send(): ble_mac_busy_tx, dropping packet\n");
gnrc_pktbuf_release(pkt);
return -EBUSY;
}

With such "ugly" workaround, the memory leak will be dramatically reduced and the stack will be able to handle more than 5000 pings without memory allocation issue.
There is simlar memory leak in case of -EBADMSG : https://github.com/RIOT-OS/RIOT/blob/master/pkg/nordic_softdevice_ble/src/gnrc_nordic_ble_6lowpan.c#L149

One better approach will be to requeue the GNRC_NETAPI_MSG_TYPE_SND message for retransmission. This could be done either the _send function or the _gnrc_nordic_ble_6lowpan_thread main loop by handling the different errors returned by _send.

Looking for feedback on the recommendation for properly fixing this.

Note:
1/ to get ping stability, you will need a fix or workaround regarding the uart_write function depending on how much debug you have activated. See #5954 .
2/ there is still a remaining memory leak after this, not yet understood by with a lot lower magnitude because it is only 8bytes once in a while and there is usually an hard_fault happening before the memory allocation buffer is full.

RIOT-2016.10 - Release Notes ============================ RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports a range of devices that are typically found in the Internet of Things: 8-bit microcontrollers, 16-bit microcontrollers and light-weight 32-bit processors. RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, real-time capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access, independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers partial POSIX compliance). RIOT is developed by an international open source community which is independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community) and is licensed with a non-viral copyleft license (LGPLv2.1), which allows indirect business models around the free open-source software platform provided by RIOT. About this release: =================== This release provides a lot of new features as well as it fixes several major bugs. Among these new features are the new simplified network socket API called sock, the GNRC specific CoAP implementation gcoap and several new packages: TinyDTLS, the Aversive++ microcontroller library for robotics, the u8g2 graphic library, and nanocoap. Using the new sock API an implementation of the Simple Time Network Protocol (SNTP) was also introduced, allowing for time synchronization between nodes. New platforms include the Arduino Uno, the Arduino Duemilanove, the Arduino Zero, SODAQ Autonomo, and the Zolertia remote (rev. B). The most significant bug fix was done in native which led to a significantly more robust handling of ISRs and now allows for at least 1,000 native instances running stably on one machine. About 263 pull requests with about 398 commits have been merged since the last release and about 42 issues have been solved. 37 people contributed with code in 100 days. 1006 files have been touched with 166500 insertions and 26926 deletions. Notations used below: ===================== + means new feature/item * means modified feature/item - means removed feature/item New features and changes ======================== General ------- * Verbose behavior for assert() macro Core ---- + MPU support for Cortex-M API changes ----------- + Socket-like sock API (replacing conn) * netdev2: Add Testmodes and CCA modes * IEEE 802.15.4: clean-up Intra-PAN behavior * IEEE 802.15.4: centralize default values * gnrc_pktbuf: allow for 0-sized snips + gnrc_netapi: mbox and arbitrary callback support System libraries ---------------- No new features or changes Networking ---------- + Provide sock-port for GNRC + gcoap: a GNRC-based CoAP implementation + Simple Network Time Protocol (RFC 5905, section 14) + Priority Queue for packet snips + IPv4 header definitions Packages -------- + nanocoap: CoAP header parser/builder + TinyDTLS: DTLS library + tiny-asn1: asn.1/der decoder + Aversive++ microcontroller programming library + u8g2 graphic library Platforms --------- + Support for stm32f2xx MCU family + Low power modes for samd21 CPUs + More Arduino-based platforms: + Arduino Uno + Arduino Duemilanove + Arduino Zero + More boards of ST's Nucleo platforms: + ST Nucleo F030 board support + ST Nucleo F070 board support + ST Nucleo F446 board support + SODAQ Automono + Zolertia remote rev. B Drivers ------- + W5100 Ethernet device + Atmel IO1 Xplained extension + LPD8808 LED strips * at86rf2xx: provide capability to access the RND_VALUE random value register Build System ------------ + static-tests build target for easy local execution of CI's static tests Other ----- + Provide Arduino API to Nucleo boards + Packer configuration file to build vagrant boxes + CC2650STK Debugger Support + ethos: add Ethos over TCP support Fixed Issues from the last release ================================== #534: native debugging on osx fails #2071: native: *long* overdue fixes #3341: netdev2_tap crashes when hammered #5007: gnrc icmpv6: Ping reply goes out the wrong interface #5432: native: valgrind fails Known Issues ============ Networking related issues ------------------------- #3075: nhdp: unnecessary microsecond precision: NHDP works with timer values of microsecond precision which is not required. Changing to lower precision would save some memory. #4048: potential racey memory leak: According to the packet buffer stats, flood-pinging a multicast destination may lead to a memory leak due to a race condition. However, it seems to be a rare case and a completely filled up packet buffer was not observed. #4388: POSIX sockets: open socket is bound to a specific thread: This was an inherit problem of the conn API under GNRC. Since the POSIX sockets are still based on conn for this release, this issue persists #4527: gnrc_ipv6: Multicast is not forwarded if routing node listens to the address (might still be fixable for release, see #5729, #5230: gnrc ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers) #5016: gnrc_rpl: Rejoining RPL instance as root after reboot messes up routing #5055: cpuid: multiple radios will get same EUI-64 Nodes with multiple interfaces might get the same EUI-64 for them since they are generated from the same CPU ID. #5656: Possible Weakness with locking in the GNRC network stack: For some operations mutexes to the network interfaces need to get unlocked in the current implementation to not get deadlocked. Recursive mutexes as provided in #5731 might help to solve this problem. #5748: gnrc: nodes crashing with too small packet buffer: A packet buffer of size ~512 B might lead to crashes. The issue describes this for several hundret nodes, but agressive flooding with just two nodes was also shown to lead to this problem. #5858: gnrc: 6lo: potential problem with reassembly of fragments: If one frame gets lost the reassembly state machine might get out of sync ### NDP is not working properly #4499: handle of l2src_len in gnrc_ndp_rtr_sol_handle: Reception of a router solicitation might lead to invalid zero-length link-layer addresses in neighbor cache. #5005: ndp: router advertisement sent with global address: Under some circumstances a router might send RAs with GUAs. While they are ignored on receive (as RFC 4861 specifies), RAs should have link-local addresses and not even be send out this way. #5122: NDP: global unicast address on non-6LBR nodes disappears after a while: Several issues (also see #5760) lead to a global unicast address effectively being banned from the network (disappears from neighbor cache, is not added again) #5467: ipv6 address vanishes when ARO (wrongly) indicates DUP caused by outdated ncache at router #5539: Border Router: packet not forwarded from ethos to interface 6 #5790: ND: Lost of Global IPV6 on node after sending lot of UDP frame from BR Timer related issues -------------------- #4841: xtimer: timer already in the list: Under some conditions an xtimer can end up twice in the internal list of the xtimer module #4902: xtimer: xtimer_set: xtimer_set does not handle integer overflows well #5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe for non-32-bit platforms. #5928: xtimer: usage in board_init() crashes: some boards use the xtimer in there board_init() function. The xtimer is however first initialized in the auto_init module which is executed after board_init() #6052: tests: xtimer_drift gets stuck: xtimer_drift application freezes after ~30-200 seconds native related issues --------------------- #495: native not float safe: When the FPU is used when an asynchronous context switch occurs, either the stack gets corrupted or a floating point exception occurs. #2175: ubjson: valgind registers "Invalid write of size 4" in unittests #4590: pkg: building relic with clang fails. #5796: native: tlsf: early malloc will lead to a crash: TLSF needs pools to be initialized (which is currently expected to be done in an application). If a malloc is needed before an application's main started (e.g. driver initialization) the node can crash, since no pool is allocated yet. other platform related issues ----------------------------- #1891: newlib-nano: Printf formatting does not work properly for some numberic types: PRI[uxdi]64, PRI[uxdi]8 and float are not parsed in newlib-nano #2006: cpu/nrf51822: timer callback may be fired too early #2143: unittests: tests-core doesn't compile for all platforms: GCC build-ins were used in the unittests which are not available with msp430-gcc #2300: qemu unittest fails because of a page fault #4512: pkg: tests: RELIC unittests fail on iotlab-m3 #4522: avsextrem: linker sometimes doesn't find `bl_init_clks()` #4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc oonf_api is not building with clang. (Partly solved by #4593) #4694: drivers/lm75a: does not build #4737: cortex-m: Hard fault after a thread exits (under some circumstances) #4822: kw2xrf: packet loss when packets get fragmented #4876: at86rf2xx: Simultaneous use of different transceiver types is not supported #4954: chronos: compiling with -O0 breaks #4866: not all GPIO driver implementations are thread safe: Due to non-atomic operations in the drivers some pin configurations might get lost. #5009: RIOT is saw-toothing in energy consumption (even when idling) #5103: xtimer: weird behavior of tests/xtimer_drift: xtimer_drift randomly jumps a few seconds on nrf52 #5361: cpu/cc26x0: timer broken #5405: Eratic timings on iotlab-m3 with compression context activated #5460: cpu/samd21: i2c timing with compiler optimization #5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts #5489: cpu/lpc11u34: ADC broken #5603: atmega boards second UART issue #5678: at86rf2xx: failed assertion in _isr #5719: cc2538: rf driver doesn't handle large packets #5799: kw2x: 15.4 duplicate transmits #5944: msp430: ipv6_hdr unittests fail #5848: arduino: Race condition in sys/arduino/Makefile.include #5954: nRF52 uart_write get stuck #6018: nRF52 gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak other issues ------------ #1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s). #3256: make: Setting constants on compile time doesn't really set them everywhere #3366: periph/i2c: handle NACK #4488: Making the newlib thread-safe: When calling puts/printf after thread_create(), the CPU hangs for DMA enabled uart drivers. #4866: periph: GPIO drivers are not thread safe #5128: make: buildtest breaks when exporting FEATURES_PROVIDED var #5207: make: buildest fails with board dependent application Makefiles #5390: pkg: OpenWSN does not compile: This package still uses deprecated modules and was not tested for a long time. #5520: tests/periph_uart not working #5561: C++11 extensions in header files #5776: make: Predefining CFLAGS are parsed weirdly #5863: OSX + SAMR21-xpro: shell cannot handle command inputs larger than 64 chars #5962: Makefile: UNDEF variable is not working as documented #6022: pkg: build order issue Special Thanks ============== We like to give our special thanks to all the companies that provided us with their hardware for porting and testing, namely the people from (in alphabeticalorder): Atmel, Freescale, Imagination Technologies, Limifrog, Nordic, OpenMote, Phytec, SiLabs, UDOO,and Zolertia; and also companies that directly sponsored development time: Cisco Systems, Eistec, Ell-i, Enigeering Spirit, Nordic, FreshTemp LLC, OTAkeys and Phytec. 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kaspar030 · 2016-11-18T11:22:19Z

Sorry for the delay.

One better approach will be to requeue the GNRC_NETAPI_MSG_TYPE_SND message for retransmission. This could be done either the _send function or the _gnrc_nordic_ble_6lowpan_thread main loop by handling the different errors returned by _send.

IMHO send would be the place to handle the error. I'd be fine with a workaround (make sure the packet always gets freed), but re-queuing is maybe not much more complicated to implement?

jfbortolotti · 2016-11-30T13:13:09Z

Correct re-queuing may not be that complicated it will just take more time for me to figure it out and test it ...
If you can point me to some sample of code, I'll give it a try.
I can submit the workaround very quickly as I tested it already.

kaspar030 · 2016-11-30T13:17:06Z

I can submit the workaround very quickly as I tested it already.

Then let's go with the workaround and provide a proper fix later!

kaspar030 · 2016-11-30T13:19:33Z

One more idea: could we replace ble_mac_busy_tx with a mutex?

RIOT-2016.10 - Release Notes ============================ RIOT is a real-time multi-threading operating system that supports a range of devices that are typically found in the Internet of Things: 8-bit microcontrollers, 16-bit microcontrollers and light-weight 32-bit processors. RIOT is based on the following design principles: energy-efficiency, real-time capabilities, small memory footprint, modularity, and uniform API access, independent of the underlying hardware (this API offers partial POSIX compliance). RIOT is developed by an international open source community which is independent of specific vendors (e.g. similarly to the Linux community) and is licensed with a non-viral copyleft license (LGPLv2.1), which allows indirect business models around the free open-source software platform provided by RIOT. About this release: =================== This release provides a lot of new features as well as it fixes several major bugs. Among these new features are the new simplified network socket API called sock, the GNRC specific CoAP implementation gcoap and several new packages: TinyDTLS, the Aversive++ microcontroller library for robotics, the u8g2 graphic library, and nanocoap. Using the new sock API an implementation of the Simple Time Network Protocol (SNTP) was also introduced, allowing for time synchronization between nodes. New platforms include the Arduino Uno, the Arduino Duemilanove, the Arduino Zero, SODAQ Autonomo, and the Zolertia remote (rev. B). The most significant bug fix was done in native which led to a significantly more robust handling of ISRs and now allows for at least 1,000 native instances running stably on one machine. About 263 pull requests with about 398 commits have been merged since the last release and about 42 issues have been solved. 37 people contributed with code in 100 days. 1006 files have been touched with 166500 insertions and 26926 deletions. Notations used below: ===================== + means new feature/item * means modified feature/item - means removed feature/item New features and changes ======================== General ------- * Verbose behavior for assert() macro Core ---- + MPU support for Cortex-M API changes ----------- + Socket-like sock API (replacing conn) * netdev2: Add Testmodes and CCA modes * IEEE 802.15.4: clean-up Intra-PAN behavior * IEEE 802.15.4: centralize default values * gnrc_pktbuf: allow for 0-sized snips + gnrc_netapi: mbox and arbitrary callback support System libraries ---------------- No new features or changes Networking ---------- + Provide sock-port for GNRC + gcoap: a GNRC-based CoAP implementation + Simple Network Time Protocol (RFC 5905, section 14) + Priority Queue for packet snips + IPv4 header definitions Packages -------- + nanocoap: CoAP header parser/builder + TinyDTLS: DTLS library + tiny-asn1: asn.1/der decoder + Aversive++ microcontroller programming library + u8g2 graphic library Platforms --------- + Support for stm32f2xx MCU family + Low power modes for samd21 CPUs + More Arduino-based platforms: + Arduino Uno + Arduino Duemilanove + Arduino Zero + More boards of ST's Nucleo platforms: + ST Nucleo F030 board support + ST Nucleo F070 board support + ST Nucleo F446 board support + SODAQ Automono + Zolertia remote rev. B Drivers ------- + W5100 Ethernet device + Atmel IO1 Xplained extension + LPD8808 LED strips * at86rf2xx: provide capability to access the RND_VALUE random value register Build System ------------ + static-tests build target for easy local execution of CI's static tests Other ----- + Provide Arduino API to Nucleo boards + Packer configuration file to build vagrant boxes + CC2650STK Debugger Support + ethos: add Ethos over TCP support Fixed Issues from the last release ================================== RIOT-OS#534: native debugging on osx fails RIOT-OS#2071: native: *long* overdue fixes RIOT-OS#3341: netdev2_tap crashes when hammered RIOT-OS#5007: gnrc icmpv6: Ping reply goes out the wrong interface RIOT-OS#5432: native: valgrind fails Known Issues ============ Networking related issues ------------------------- RIOT-OS#3075: nhdp: unnecessary microsecond precision: NHDP works with timer values of microsecond precision which is not required. Changing to lower precision would save some memory. RIOT-OS#4048: potential racey memory leak: According to the packet buffer stats, flood-pinging a multicast destination may lead to a memory leak due to a race condition. However, it seems to be a rare case and a completely filled up packet buffer was not observed. RIOT-OS#4388: POSIX sockets: open socket is bound to a specific thread: This was an inherit problem of the conn API under GNRC. Since the POSIX sockets are still based on conn for this release, this issue persists RIOT-OS#4527: gnrc_ipv6: Multicast is not forwarded if routing node listens to the address (might still be fixable for release, see RIOT-OS#5729, RIOT-OS#5230: gnrc ipv6: multicast packets are not dispatched to the upper layers) RIOT-OS#5016: gnrc_rpl: Rejoining RPL instance as root after reboot messes up routing RIOT-OS#5055: cpuid: multiple radios will get same EUI-64 Nodes with multiple interfaces might get the same EUI-64 for them since they are generated from the same CPU ID. RIOT-OS#5656: Possible Weakness with locking in the GNRC network stack: For some operations mutexes to the network interfaces need to get unlocked in the current implementation to not get deadlocked. Recursive mutexes as provided in RIOT-OS#5731 might help to solve this problem. RIOT-OS#5748: gnrc: nodes crashing with too small packet buffer: A packet buffer of size ~512 B might lead to crashes. The issue describes this for several hundret nodes, but agressive flooding with just two nodes was also shown to lead to this problem. RIOT-OS#5858: gnrc: 6lo: potential problem with reassembly of fragments: If one frame gets lost the reassembly state machine might get out of sync ### NDP is not working properly RIOT-OS#4499: handle of l2src_len in gnrc_ndp_rtr_sol_handle: Reception of a router solicitation might lead to invalid zero-length link-layer addresses in neighbor cache. RIOT-OS#5005: ndp: router advertisement sent with global address: Under some circumstances a router might send RAs with GUAs. While they are ignored on receive (as RFC 4861 specifies), RAs should have link-local addresses and not even be send out this way. RIOT-OS#5122: NDP: global unicast address on non-6LBR nodes disappears after a while: Several issues (also see RIOT-OS#5760) lead to a global unicast address effectively being banned from the network (disappears from neighbor cache, is not added again) RIOT-OS#5467: ipv6 address vanishes when ARO (wrongly) indicates DUP caused by outdated ncache at router RIOT-OS#5539: Border Router: packet not forwarded from ethos to interface 6 RIOT-OS#5790: ND: Lost of Global IPV6 on node after sending lot of UDP frame from BR Timer related issues -------------------- RIOT-OS#4841: xtimer: timer already in the list: Under some conditions an xtimer can end up twice in the internal list of the xtimer module RIOT-OS#4902: xtimer: xtimer_set: xtimer_set does not handle integer overflows well RIOT-OS#5338: xtimer: xtimer_now() not ISR safe for non-32-bit platforms. RIOT-OS#5928: xtimer: usage in board_init() crashes: some boards use the xtimer in there board_init() function. The xtimer is however first initialized in the auto_init module which is executed after board_init() RIOT-OS#6052: tests: xtimer_drift gets stuck: xtimer_drift application freezes after ~30-200 seconds native related issues --------------------- RIOT-OS#495: native not float safe: When the FPU is used when an asynchronous context switch occurs, either the stack gets corrupted or a floating point exception occurs. RIOT-OS#2175: ubjson: valgind registers "Invalid write of size 4" in unittests RIOT-OS#4590: pkg: building relic with clang fails. RIOT-OS#5796: native: tlsf: early malloc will lead to a crash: TLSF needs pools to be initialized (which is currently expected to be done in an application). If a malloc is needed before an application's main started (e.g. driver initialization) the node can crash, since no pool is allocated yet. other platform related issues ----------------------------- RIOT-OS#1891: newlib-nano: Printf formatting does not work properly for some numberic types: PRI[uxdi]64, PRI[uxdi]8 and float are not parsed in newlib-nano RIOT-OS#2006: cpu/nrf51822: timer callback may be fired too early RIOT-OS#2143: unittests: tests-core doesn't compile for all platforms: GCC build-ins were used in the unittests which are not available with msp430-gcc RIOT-OS#2300: qemu unittest fails because of a page fault RIOT-OS#4512: pkg: tests: RELIC unittests fail on iotlab-m3 RIOT-OS#4522: avsextrem: linker sometimes doesn't find `bl_init_clks()` RIOT-OS#4560: make: clang is more pedantic than gcc oonf_api is not building with clang. (Partly solved by RIOT-OS#4593) RIOT-OS#4694: drivers/lm75a: does not build RIOT-OS#4737: cortex-m: Hard fault after a thread exits (under some circumstances) RIOT-OS#4822: kw2xrf: packet loss when packets get fragmented RIOT-OS#4876: at86rf2xx: Simultaneous use of different transceiver types is not supported RIOT-OS#4954: chronos: compiling with -O0 breaks RIOT-OS#4866: not all GPIO driver implementations are thread safe: Due to non-atomic operations in the drivers some pin configurations might get lost. RIOT-OS#5009: RIOT is saw-toothing in energy consumption (even when idling) RIOT-OS#5103: xtimer: weird behavior of tests/xtimer_drift: xtimer_drift randomly jumps a few seconds on nrf52 RIOT-OS#5361: cpu/cc26x0: timer broken RIOT-OS#5405: Eratic timings on iotlab-m3 with compression context activated RIOT-OS#5460: cpu/samd21: i2c timing with compiler optimization RIOT-OS#5486: at86rf2xx: lost interrupts RIOT-OS#5489: cpu/lpc11u34: ADC broken RIOT-OS#5603: atmega boards second UART issue RIOT-OS#5678: at86rf2xx: failed assertion in _isr RIOT-OS#5719: cc2538: rf driver doesn't handle large packets RIOT-OS#5799: kw2x: 15.4 duplicate transmits RIOT-OS#5944: msp430: ipv6_hdr unittests fail RIOT-OS#5848: arduino: Race condition in sys/arduino/Makefile.include RIOT-OS#5954: nRF52 uart_write get stuck RIOT-OS#6018: nRF52 gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak other issues ------------ RIOT-OS#1263: TLSF implementation contains (a) read-before-write error(s). RIOT-OS#3256: make: Setting constants on compile time doesn't really set them everywhere RIOT-OS#3366: periph/i2c: handle NACK RIOT-OS#4488: Making the newlib thread-safe: When calling puts/printf after thread_create(), the CPU hangs for DMA enabled uart drivers. RIOT-OS#4866: periph: GPIO drivers are not thread safe RIOT-OS#5128: make: buildtest breaks when exporting FEATURES_PROVIDED var RIOT-OS#5207: make: buildest fails with board dependent application Makefiles RIOT-OS#5390: pkg: OpenWSN does not compile: This package still uses deprecated modules and was not tested for a long time. RIOT-OS#5520: tests/periph_uart not working RIOT-OS#5561: C++11 extensions in header files RIOT-OS#5776: make: Predefining CFLAGS are parsed weirdly RIOT-OS#5863: OSX + SAMR21-xpro: shell cannot handle command inputs larger than 64 chars RIOT-OS#5962: Makefile: UNDEF variable is not working as documented RIOT-OS#6022: pkg: build order issue Special Thanks ============== We like to give our special thanks to all the companies that provided us with their hardware for porting and testing, namely the people from (in alphabeticalorder): Atmel, Freescale, Imagination Technologies, Limifrog, Nordic, OpenMote, Phytec, SiLabs, UDOO,and Zolertia; and also companies that directly sponsored development time: Cisco Systems, Eistec, Ell-i, Enigeering Spirit, Nordic, FreshTemp LLC, OTAkeys and Phytec. More information ================ http://www.riot-os.org Mailing lists ------------- * RIOT OS kernel developers list [email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/devel) * RIOT OS users list [email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/users) * RIOT commits [email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/commits) * Github notifications [email protected] (http://lists.riot-os.org/mailman/listinfo/notifications) IRC --- * Join the RIOT IRC channel at: irc.freenode.net, #riot-os License ======= * Most of the code developed by the RIOT community is licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) version 2.1 as published by the Free Software Foundation. * Some external sources are published under a separate, LGPL compatible license (e.g. some files developed by SICS). All code files contain licensing information.

kYc0o · 2017-04-25T18:42:27Z

So, there was such workaround?

jfbortolotti · 2017-04-25T23:38:31Z

Nothing cleaner than what described above so far.

kYc0o · 2017-04-26T12:22:29Z

What I mean is if a PR was opened with such workaround.

jfbortolotti · 2017-04-26T23:27:35Z

No PR opened with such workaround.

kYc0o · 2018-07-17T15:05:28Z

@pekkanikander your PR updating the softdevice would solve this issue?

pekkanikander · 2018-07-21T07:00:05Z

@pekkanikander your PR updating the softdevice would solve this issue?

I don't know. I haven't had time to look at this bug.

stale · 2019-08-10T08:07:57Z

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miri64 · 2019-09-23T10:50:54Z

As nimble is now used per default with the NRF52dk instead of the soft device, shouldn't this be obsolete now?

aabadie · 2019-09-23T11:50:36Z

As nimble is now used per default with the NRF52dk instead of the soft device, shouldn't this be obsolete now?

SoftDevice is still supported in RIOT so this is bug is still there. Maybe just update the PR title ? And try to apply the proposed fix ?

miri64 · 2019-09-23T11:52:46Z

[…] And try to apply the proposed fix ?

Then please do, I don't believe there is anyone working with it right now though, due to several porting issues.

Citrullin · 2020-02-09T04:28:05Z

As nimble is now used per default with the NRF52dk instead of the soft device, shouldn't this be obsolete now?

SoftDevice is still supported in RIOT so this is bug is still there. Maybe just update the PR title ? And try to apply the proposed fix ?

I agree with @miri64. The package is not well maintained anymore, because NimBLE provides a better job and is the default package for nrf52 ble related things. We might even want to discuss removing the softdevice in the long run. Migration should be really simple due to the gnrc network stack.
Probably also a topic for @haukepetersen

miri64 · 2020-07-01T12:05:12Z

The softdevice is slated to be removed after 2020.10. If someone wants to fix that bug until then, it is very welcome, but for now I just assign the milestone as a memo for the next release manager (@bergzand).

chrysn · 2021-05-10T08:24:52Z

With the removal of the softdevice complete, this has become moot; closing.

OlegHahm assigned haukepetersen, kaspar030 and PeterKietzmann Oct 30, 2016

OlegHahm added Type: bug The issue reports a bug / The PR fixes a bug (including spelling errors) Area: network Area: Networking Area: drivers Area: Device drivers Area: BLE Area: Bluetooth Low Energy support labels Oct 30, 2016

OlegHahm added this to the Release 2016.10 milestone Oct 30, 2016

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miri64 changed the title ~~nRF52 gnrc 6lowpan ble memory leak~~ nRF52: gnrc_6lowpan_ble: memory leak with nordic_softdevice_ble Sep 23, 2019

This was referenced May 15, 2020

nrf52840dk: build fails with softdevice support #8357

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pkg/softdevice: add deprecation warning #14092

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chrysn closed this as completed May 10, 2021

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nRF52: gnrc_6lowpan_ble: memory leak with nordic_softdevice_ble #6018

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