CVE-2026-64434: Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix UAF in channel timeout by holding conn ref

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>

Description
===========

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix UAF in channel timeout by holding conn ref

l2cap_chan_timeout() runs asynchronously and accesses chan->conn. If
the connection is torn down while the timer is running or pending,
chan->conn can be freed, leading to a use-after-free when the timer
worker attempts to lock conn->lock:

| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:4456 [inline]
| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in __mutex_trylock_fast kernel/locking/mutex.c:161 [inline]
| BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in mutex_lock+0x4f/0xa0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:318
| Write of size 8 at addr ffff8881298d9550 by task kworker/2:1/83
|
| CPU: 2 UID: 0 PID: 83 Comm: kworker/2:1 Not tainted 7.1.0-rc6-next-20260601-dirty #6 PREEMPT(full)
| Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
| Workqueue: events l2cap_chan_timeout
| Call Trace:
|  <TASK>
|  instrument_atomic_read_write include/linux/instrumented.h:112 [inline]
|  atomic_long_try_cmpxchg_acquire include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:4456 [inline]
|  __mutex_trylock_fast kernel/locking/mutex.c:161 [inline]
|  mutex_lock+0x4f/0xa0 kernel/locking/mutex.c:318
|  l2cap_chan_timeout+0x5d/0x1b0 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:422
|  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3326 [inline]
|  process_scheduled_works+0x7c8/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3409
|  worker_thread+0x8a9/0xcf0 kernel/workqueue.c:3490
|  kthread+0x346/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:436
|  ret_from_fork+0x1a3/0x470 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
|  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
|  </TASK>
|
| Allocated by task 320:
|  l2cap_conn_add+0xa7/0x820 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7075
|  l2cap_connect_cfm+0xdb/0xd70 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7452
|  hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2139 [inline]
|  hci_remote_features_evt+0x52f/0x9f0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:3760
|  hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7796 [inline]
|  hci_event_packet+0x561/0xa70 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7847
|  hci_rx_work+0x370/0x890 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4040
|  process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3326 [inline]
|  process_scheduled_works+0x7c8/0xfb0 kernel/workqueue.c:3409
|  worker_thread+0x8a9/0xcf0 kernel/workqueue.c:3490
|  kthread+0x346/0x430 kernel/kthread.c:436
|  ret_from_fork+0x1a3/0x470 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
|  ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
|
| Freed by task 322:
|  hci_disconn_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2154 [inline]
|  hci_conn_hash_flush+0x101/0x1f0 net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:2736
|  hci_dev_close_sync+0x889/0xde0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5405
|  hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:502 [inline]
|  hci_unregister_dev+0x1f7/0x370 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:2679
|  vhci_release+0x12a/0x180 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:690
|  __fput+0x369/0x890 fs/file_table.c:510
|  task_work_run+0x160/0x1d0 kernel/task_work.c:233
|  get_signal+0xf5b/0x1120 kernel/signal.c:2810
|  arch_do_signal_or_restart+0x4d/0x600 arch/x86/kernel/signal.c:337
|  __exit_to_user_mode_loop kernel/entry/common.c:64 [inline]
|  exit_to_user_mode_loop+0x85/0x510 kernel/entry/common.c:98
|  do_syscall_64+0x263/0x3d0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:100
|  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
|
| The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff8881298d9400
|  which belongs to the cache kmalloc-512 of size 512
| The buggy address is located 336 bytes inside of
|  freed 512-byte region [ffff8881298d9400, ffff8881298d9600)

Fix it by having chan->conn hold a reference to l2cap_conn (via
l2cap_conn_get) when the channel is added to the connection, and
releasing it in the channel destructor. This ensures the l2cap_conn
remains alive as long as the channel exists.

A new FLAG_DEL channel flag is introduced to indicate that the channel
has been deleted from its connection. l2cap_chan_del() atomically sets
this flag using test_and_set_bit() instead of setting chan->conn to
NULL. All asynchronous workers (l2cap_chan_timeout, l2cap_ack_timeout,
l2cap_monitor_timeout, l2cap_retrans_timeout) and l2cap_chan_send()
check FLAG_DEL to determine whether the channel has been torn down,
rather than testing chan->conn for NULL.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2026-64434 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 6.6.143 with commit 89dec92041717b027216e110599e4f6d6c921b79 and fixed in 6.6.145 with commit 91047a4396a8b1857a6f712a90cf33ec0012b189
	Issue introduced in 6.12.93 with commit 50dfec218808b148ab4247b1858031b7a32015c5 and fixed in 6.12.97 with commit 0b0e2bf39cf99e458d991b9df253727e036a7d7d
	Issue introduced in 6.18.35 with commit 859d3ace791ed878ae9ba5522c7844d960da8f88 and fixed in 6.18.39 with commit d3b739db5dc6f688a60d56da872fabaf65246032
	Issue introduced in 7.1 with commit 8c8e620467a7b51562dbcefbd1f09f288d7d710d and fixed in 7.1.4 with commit 50c38d9f42a529691e4e67ea9cedf4f0bfc8d277
	Issue introduced in 7.1 with commit 8c8e620467a7b51562dbcefbd1f09f288d7d710d and fixed in 7.2-rc1 with commit b66774b48dd98f07254951f74ea6f513efe7ff8b
	Issue introduced in 5.10.259 with commit 3634cbdc2eb414b69ffa752ddbe5e0458518e321
	Issue introduced in 5.15.210 with commit e1c100e2d61bd8c718b7d91fe3e050780a9bf72d
	Issue introduced in 6.1.176 with commit deb8493a8fa599f6c95e2465b12bfdfb7f94a1d9
	Issue introduced in 7.0.12 with commit 7555fd885a0603f50e49a655850a1f2bd8a25398

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2026-64434
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
	net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/91047a4396a8b1857a6f712a90cf33ec0012b189
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0b0e2bf39cf99e458d991b9df253727e036a7d7d
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/d3b739db5dc6f688a60d56da872fabaf65246032
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/50c38d9f42a529691e4e67ea9cedf4f0bfc8d277
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/b66774b48dd98f07254951f74ea6f513efe7ff8b