[PATCH] Bluetooth: ISO: fix use-after-free of listener socket in iso_conn_ready

From: Hang Nan

Date: Wed Aug 12 2026 - 06:23:28 EST


iso_conn_ready() looks up the BIS listener socket with iso_get_sock(),
which takes a reference, and then, without re-checking its state,
creates a child socket from it:

parent = iso_get_sock(hdev, ...);
if (!parent)
return;

lock_sock(parent);
sk = iso_sock_alloc(sock_net(parent), NULL, BTPROTO_ISO, ...);
...
iso_chan_add(conn, sk, parent);
...
release_sock(parent);
sock_put(parent);

If the listener socket is closed concurrently, between iso_get_sock()
and lock_sock(), the reference taken by iso_get_sock() may be the last
one: the close path drops the link-list reference, and once
iso_conn_ready() drops its own reference at the end of the function the
socket is freed. The child socket, however, is already linked to the
freed parent, and a later disconnect of the child runs iso_chan_del()
-> bt_accept_unlink(), which dereferences the dangling parent pointer
into the freed accept queue (a use-after-free). The same dangling
pointer is also dereferenced through parent->sk_data_ready(parent) in
iso_chan_del().

Fix it the same way the connected (non-BIS) path was fixed in commit
0d255e63fcf3 ("Bluetooth: ISO: hold sk properly in iso_conn_ready"):
after taking the socket lock, re-check that the parent is still a
listening, alive socket, and bail out otherwise.

Fixes: ccf74f2390d60 ("Bluetooth: Add BTPROTO_ISO socket type")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Hang Nan <2122295973@xxxxxx>
---
net/bluetooth/iso.c | 15 +++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/iso.c b/net/bluetooth/iso.c
index aa2ce78f56a2..069fc87a4e18 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/iso.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/iso.c
@@ -2277,6 +2277,21 @@ static void iso_conn_ready(struct iso_conn *conn)

lock_sock(parent);

+ /* The listener socket may have been closed concurrently
+ * between iso_get_sock() and lock_sock(): the reference
+ * taken by iso_get_sock() may be the last one, in which
+ * case the socket is freed as soon as we drop it at the
+ * end of this function. Recheck that the parent is still
+ * a valid, listening socket before creating a child
+ * socket from it.
+ */
+ if (parent->sk_state != BT_LISTEN ||
+ sock_flag(parent, SOCK_ZAPPED)) {
+ release_sock(parent);
+ sock_put(parent);
+ return;
+ }
+
sk = iso_sock_alloc(sock_net(parent), NULL,
BTPROTO_ISO, GFP_ATOMIC, 0);
if (!sk) {