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| author | Krystian Kaniewski <krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com> | 2026-09-04 12:24:22 +0000 |
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| committer | Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com> | 2026-09-04 10:57:20 -0400 |
| commit | 21c3501e5f46428a4f7c1e562735c94cf1cbbad9 (patch) | |
| tree | beef992c6e92252bf9cac715a65dcaa1ea8768c6 /scripts/Makefile.thinlto | |
| parent | 860043e482746e6dc866e7249e109827695f84b2 (diff) | |
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Bluetooth: hci_sysfs: Fix NULL pointer dereference in device_del()
A NULL pointer dereference in klist_put() occurs when a child device (such
as a BNEP network device in bnep_session) is concurrently being
unregistered while hci_conn_del_sysfs() reparents child devices.
This is caused by a race condition between hci_conn_del_sysfs() and
concurrent child device unregistration (e.g. bnep_session calling
unregister_netdev()). During device unregistration, device_del() snapshots
a non-NULL parent pointer. Concurrently, hci_conn_del_sysfs() finds the
child device using device_find_any_child() and calls device_move() to
reparent it to NULL, which removes the node from its parent's klist and
clears knode_parent. Subsequently, device_del() calls
klist_del(&dev->p->knode_parent) using the stale parent snapshot, causing
klist_put() to dereference knode_klist(n)->put on an already removed node,
resulting in a NULL pointer dereference.
This race was introduced by commit 27aabf27fd01 ("Bluetooth: fix
use-after-free in device_for_each_child()"), which replaced
device_find_child(..., __match_tty) with device_find_any_child() in
hci_conn_del_sysfs(). That change was intended to avoid a use-after-free
where conn->dev outlived its parent hdev->dev when child devices held
references to conn->dev, because conn->dev only held a reference to
hdev->dev while registered in sysfs.
Fix the issue properly by taking an explicit reference to the parent device
with get_device(&hdev->dev) in hci_conn_init_sysfs() and dropping it with
put_device(parent) in bt_link_release() when the conn device is freed. This
ensures that hdev->dev remains valid for the entire lifecycle of conn->dev,
resolving the underlying use-after-free. With the parent reference held
properly, restore the __match_tty filter in hci_conn_del_sysfs() so that
device_move() is only invoked on persistent RFCOMM TTY devices as
originally intended, eliminating the race condition with unregistering
network devices.
Fixes: 27aabf27fd01 ("Bluetooth: fix use-after-free in device_for_each_child()")
Assisted-by: Gemini:gemini-3.7-flash syzbot
Reported-by: syzbot+6df45dd3d03e1a9aca96@syzkaller.appspotmail.com
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=6df45dd3d03e1a9aca96
Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/ai_job?id=f1c0e740-db21-40af-a9ff-84db0fd8b8bd
Signed-off-by: Krystian Kaniewski <krystianmkaniewski@gmail.com>
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