Forwarded: [PATCH] Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject accept queue add unless BT_LISTEN

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Date: Sat Aug 08 2026 - 07:53:59 EST


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Subject: [PATCH] Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject accept queue add unless BT_LISTEN
Author: pav@xxxxxx

New items should not be added to parent socket accept queue after last
l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() has run in l2cap_sock_teardown_cb() and
state set to BT_CLOSED, as that can result to UAF on dereferencing the
dangling parent reference.

Add check for sk_state == BT_LISTEN after acquiring sk lock in
l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() to avoid this.

Add lock_sock() around sk_state changes where it was missing.

That this can trigger appears to be possible since l2cap_chan::state is
not consistently guarded by a lock, so data races on it can exist in
checking parent pchan->state == BT_LISTEN in l2cap_core.

Fixes: 2ff1a41a912d ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix null-ptr-deref in l2cap_sock_state_change_cb()")
Reported-by: syzbot+9265e754091c2d27ea29@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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#syz test

net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 13 +++++++++++++
1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
index 735167f73f31..8c2ac8b911e0 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
@@ -1568,6 +1568,11 @@ static int l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan,

lock_sock(parent);

+ if (parent->sk_state != BT_LISTEN) {
+ release_sock(parent);
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
/* Check for backlog size */
if (sk_acceptq_is_full(parent)) {
BT_DBG("backlog full %d", parent->sk_ack_backlog);
@@ -1731,10 +1736,14 @@ static void l2cap_sock_state_change_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan, int state,
if (!sk)
return;

+ lock_sock(sk);
+
sk->sk_state = state;

if (err)
sk->sk_err = err;
+
+ release_sock(sk);
}

static struct sk_buff *l2cap_sock_alloc_skb_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan,
@@ -1810,6 +1819,8 @@ static void l2cap_sock_resume_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan)
if (!sk)
return;

+ lock_sock(sk);
+
if (test_and_clear_bit(FLAG_PENDING_SECURITY, &chan->flags)) {
sk->sk_state = BT_CONNECTED;
chan->state = BT_CONNECTED;
@@ -1817,6 +1828,8 @@ static void l2cap_sock_resume_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan)

clear_bit(BT_SK_SUSPEND, &bt_sk(sk)->flags);
sk->sk_state_change(sk);
+
+ release_sock(sk);
}

static void l2cap_sock_set_shutdown_cb(struct l2cap_chan *chan)
--
2.55.0