[PATCH 1/2] Bluetooth: L2CAP: avoid maybe-return-locked and add locking annotations
From: Pauli Virtanen
Date: Sun Jul 12 2026 - 08:43:07 EST
Replace the maybe-return-locked behavior of
l2cap_get_chan_by_scid/dcid() by doing locking in the caller after NULL
check. This allows the static context analysis to handle this. No
functional change intended.
Add context analysis annotations related to l2cap_chan_lock/unlock().
Signed-off-by: Pauli Virtanen <pav@xxxxxx>
---
Notes:
Possibly the l2cap_ops::alloc_skb callback should have generally
__must_hold(&chan->lock) and not just in l2cap_sock.c
This would imply l2cap_chan_send() should hold the lock, but trying to
add the annotations reveals l2cap_chan_send is called without chan->lock
from some places:
net/bluetooth/smp.c:589:2: warning: calling function 'l2cap_chan_send' requires holding mutex 'conn->smp->lock' exclusively [-Wthread-safety-analysis]
589 | l2cap_chan_send(chan, &msg, 1 + len, NULL);
| ^
1 warning generated.
net/bluetooth/6lowpan.c:455:8: warning: calling function 'l2cap_chan_send' requires holding mutex 'chan->lock' exclusively [-Wthread-safety-analysis]
455 | err = l2cap_chan_send(chan, &msg, skb->len, NULL);
| ^
Don't know now if the context in these places allows l2cap_chan_lock()
include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h | 2 ++
net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 1 +
3 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h b/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
index ef6ce1c20a4f..53a68fc32f10 100644
--- a/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
+++ b/include/net/bluetooth/l2cap.h
@@ -825,11 +825,13 @@ struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero(struct l2cap_chan *c);
void l2cap_chan_put(struct l2cap_chan *c);
static inline void l2cap_chan_lock(struct l2cap_chan *chan)
+ __acquires(&chan->lock)
{
mutex_lock_nested(&chan->lock, atomic_read(&chan->nesting));
}
static inline void l2cap_chan_unlock(struct l2cap_chan *chan)
+ __releases(&chan->lock)
{
mutex_unlock(&chan->lock);
}
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
index 538ae9aa3479..ba8e69dfbe11 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *__l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
}
/* Find channel with given SCID.
- * Returns a reference locked channel.
+ * Returns a reference.
*/
static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
u16 cid)
@@ -118,17 +118,15 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
c = __l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(conn, cid);
if (c) {
- /* Only lock if chan reference is not 0 */
+ /* Only hold if chan reference is not 0 */
c = l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero(c);
- if (c)
- l2cap_chan_lock(c);
}
return c;
}
/* Find channel with given DCID.
- * Returns a reference locked channel.
+ * Returns a reference.
*/
static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_dcid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
u16 cid)
@@ -137,10 +135,8 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_dcid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
c = __l2cap_get_chan_by_dcid(conn, cid);
if (c) {
- /* Only lock if chan reference is not 0 */
+ /* Only hold if chan reference is not 0 */
c = l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero(c);
- if (c)
- l2cap_chan_lock(c);
}
return c;
@@ -4086,6 +4082,7 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_new_connection(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
static void l2cap_connect(struct l2cap_conn *conn, struct l2cap_cmd_hdr *cmd,
u8 *data, u8 rsp_code)
+ __context_unsafe(/* conditional locking */)
{
struct l2cap_conn_req *req = (struct l2cap_conn_req *) data;
struct l2cap_conn_rsp rsp;
@@ -4364,6 +4361,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_config_req(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
return 0;
}
+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
if (chan->state != BT_CONFIG && chan->state != BT_CONNECT2 &&
chan->state != BT_CONNECTED) {
cmd_reject_invalid_cid(conn, cmd->ident, chan->scid,
@@ -4475,6 +4474,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_config_rsp(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
if (!chan)
return 0;
+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
switch (result) {
case L2CAP_CONF_SUCCESS:
l2cap_conf_rfc_get(chan, rsp->data, len);
@@ -4581,6 +4582,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_disconnect_req(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
return 0;
}
+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
rsp.dcid = cpu_to_le16(chan->scid);
rsp.scid = cpu_to_le16(chan->dcid);
l2cap_send_cmd(conn, cmd->ident, L2CAP_DISCONN_RSP, sizeof(rsp), &rsp);
@@ -4618,6 +4621,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_disconnect_rsp(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
return 0;
}
+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
if (chan->state != BT_DISCONN) {
l2cap_chan_unlock(chan);
l2cap_chan_put(chan);
@@ -5115,6 +5120,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_le_credits(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
if (!chan)
return -EBADSLT;
+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
max_credits = LE_FLOWCTL_MAX_CREDITS - chan->tx_credits;
if (credits > max_credits) {
BT_ERR("LE credits overflow");
@@ -6974,6 +6981,8 @@ static void l2cap_data_channel(struct l2cap_conn *conn, u16 cid,
return;
}
+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
BT_DBG("chan %p, len %d", chan, skb->len);
/* If we receive data on a fixed channel before the info req/rsp
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
index 735167f73f31..4afc5b370b97 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
@@ -1740,6 +1740,7 @@ static void l2cap_sock_state_change_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan, int state,
static struct sk_buff *l2cap_sock_alloc_skb_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan,
unsigned long hdr_len,
unsigned long len, int nb)
+ __must_hold(&chan->lock)
{
struct sock *sk = chan->data;
struct sk_buff *skb;
--
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