[PATCH 1/3] Bluetooth: MGMT: remove the mesh walk from the socket destructor
From: Baul Lee
Date: Fri Aug 07 2026 - 03:23:07 EST
hci_sock_destruct() calls mgmt_cleanup(), which walks hdev->mesh_pending
on every registered controller looking for entries owned by the socket
being destroyed, and completes the ones it finds.
It can never find one. mgmt_mesh_add() takes a reference on the owning
socket for every entry it links onto the list and mgmt_mesh_remove()
drops it again, so the socket's reference count cannot reach zero while
one of its entries is there.
The walk still races the list. mgmt_mesh_next() loads mesh_tx->sk from
every node it passes, including nodes owned by other sockets, while the
cmd_sync worker unlinks and frees nodes of the same list under a
different lock. mgmt_cleanup() cannot take hdev->lock: it holds
read_lock(&hci_dev_list_lock) across the walk, and hdev->lock sleeps.
It is the one user of hdev->mesh_pending that cannot be brought under
that lock.
Remove mgmt_cleanup() and its caller.
Discovered by XBOW, triaged by Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
Fixes: b338d91703fa ("Bluetooth: Implement support for Mesh")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Baul Lee <baul.lee@xxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h | 1 -
net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c | 1 -
net/bluetooth/mgmt.c | 19 -------------------
3 files changed, 21 deletions(-)
diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h b/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
index b624da5026f5..f49cec5f01e6 100644
--- a/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
+++ b/include/net/bluetooth/bluetooth.h
@@ -675,7 +675,6 @@ static inline bool iso_inited(void)
int mgmt_init(void);
void mgmt_exit(void);
-void mgmt_cleanup(struct sock *sk);
void bt_sock_reclassify_lock(struct sock *sk, int proto);
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
index 070ca388f9ac..5073f4fc3289 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sock.c
@@ -2164,7 +2164,6 @@ static int hci_sock_getsockopt(struct socket *sock, int level, int optname,
static void hci_sock_destruct(struct sock *sk)
{
- mgmt_cleanup(sk);
skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_receive_queue);
skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_write_queue);
skb_queue_purge(&sk->sk_error_queue);
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c b/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
index 167d75e34526..f13e73e3814f 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/mgmt.c
@@ -10739,22 +10739,3 @@ void mgmt_exit(void)
{
hci_mgmt_chan_unregister(&chan);
}
-
-void mgmt_cleanup(struct sock *sk)
-{
- struct mgmt_mesh_tx *mesh_tx;
- struct hci_dev *hdev;
-
- read_lock(&hci_dev_list_lock);
-
- list_for_each_entry(hdev, &hci_dev_list, list) {
- do {
- mesh_tx = mgmt_mesh_next(hdev, sk);
-
- if (mesh_tx)
- mesh_send_complete(hdev, mesh_tx, true);
- } while (mesh_tx);
- }
-
- read_unlock(&hci_dev_list_lock);
-}
--
2.50.1 (Apple Git-155)