[PATCH] Bluetooth: SCO: check for codecs->num_codecs == 1 before assigning to sco_pi(sk)->codec

From: Stefan Metzmacher

Date: Tue Apr 07 2026 - 11:14:21 EST


copy_struct_from_sockptr() fill 'buffer' in
sco_sock_setsockopt() with zeros, so there's no
real problem.

But it actually looks strange to do this,
without checking all of codecs->codecs[0]
really comes from userspace:

sco_pi(sk)->codec = codecs->codecs[0];

As only optlen < sizeof(struct bt_codecs) is checked
and codecs->num_codecs is not checked against != 1,
but only <= 1, and the space for the additional struct bt_codec
is not checked.

Note I don't understand bluetooth and I didn't do any runtime
tests with this! I just found it when debugging a problem
in copy_struct_from_sockptr().

I just added this to check the size is as expected:

BUILD_BUG_ON(struct_size(codecs, codecs, 0) != 1);
BUILD_BUG_ON(struct_size(codecs, codecs, 1) != 8);

And made sure it still compiles using this:

make CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ W=1ce C=1 net/bluetooth/sco.o

Fixes: 3e643e4efa1e ("Bluetooth: Improve setsockopt() handling of malformed user input")
Cc: Michal Luczaj <mhal@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: David Wei <dw@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-bluetooth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stefan Metzmacher <metze@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bluetooth/sco.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/sco.c b/net/bluetooth/sco.c
index b84587811ef4..359eabf7dddb 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/sco.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/sco.c
@@ -1045,7 +1045,13 @@ static int sco_sock_setsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,

codecs = (void *)buffer;

- if (codecs->num_codecs > 1) {
+ if (codecs->num_codecs != 1) {
+ hci_dev_put(hdev);
+ err = -EINVAL;
+ break;
+ }
+
+ if (optlen < struct_size(codecs, codecs, codecs->num_codecs)) {
hci_dev_put(hdev);
err = -EINVAL;
break;
--
2.43.0