[PATCH v5 1/7] Bluetooth: hci_conn: hold conn reference in abort_conn_sync()

Pauli Virtanen <[email protected]> Sat, 25 Jul 2026 12:59:17 +0300
Newsgroups org.kernel.vger.linux-bluetooth,org.kernel.vger.linux-kernel
Message-ID <2cbcaf1f4ecc03601653eff0763c07c41c901376.1784973264.git.pav@iki.fi>
There is theoretical UAF if the conn is freed while the hci_sync task is
running.

Hold refcount to avoid that.

Fixes: 227a0cdf4a02 ("Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix not generating command complete for MGMT_OP_DISCONNECT")
Signed-off-by: Pauli Virtanen <[email protected]>
---

Notes:
    v5:
    - no change
    v4:
    - no change
    v3:
    - split to multiple patches per different Fixes:

 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
index 1966cd153d97..6036ff66d8d9 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
@@ -3163,6 +3163,13 @@ static int abort_conn_sync(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data)
 	return hci_abort_conn_sync(hdev, conn, conn->abort_reason);
 }
 
+static void abort_conn_destroy(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data, int err)
+{
+	struct hci_conn *conn = data;
+
+	hci_conn_put(conn);
+}
+
 int hci_abort_conn(struct hci_conn *conn, u8 reason)
 {
 	struct hci_dev *hdev = conn->hdev;
@@ -3188,7 +3195,10 @@ int hci_abort_conn(struct hci_conn *conn, u8 reason)
 	 * as a result to MGMT_OP_DISCONNECT/MGMT_OP_UNPAIR which does
 	 * already queue its callback on cmd_sync_work.
 	 */
-	err = hci_cmd_sync_run_once(hdev, abort_conn_sync, conn, NULL);
+	err = hci_cmd_sync_run_once(hdev, abort_conn_sync, hci_conn_get(conn),
+				    abort_conn_destroy);
+	if (err)
+		hci_conn_put(conn);
 	return (err == -EEXIST) ? 0 : err;
 }
 
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2.55.0