[PATCH 6.6.y 2/2] Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix queuing tx_work after workqueue is drained

From: Artem Dinaburg

Date: Thu Oct 15 2026 - 22:15:38 EST


From: ThangNN99 <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>

[ Upstream commit 6610c6fe4b8936c232048e6049bf77c70a6f759c ]

hci_send_acl(), hci_send_sco() and hci_send_iso() queue hdev->tx_work
unconditionally. They can run from the L2CAP/SCO/ISO socket send path
while hci_dev_close_sync() is draining hdev->workqueue (HCIDEVDOWN
racing with a socket write). Since that queue_work() is not chained
work from the tx_work worker itself, __queue_work() sees the queue
marked __WQ_DRAINING, warns "cannot queue %ps on wq %s", and drops
the work:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5985 at kernel/workqueue.c:2352 __queue_work
Call Trace:
queue_work_on
l2cap_chan_send
l2cap_sock_sendmsg
...

hci_dev_close_sync() already sets HCI_CMD_DRAIN_WORKQUEUE before
draining, but only hci_cmd_work() and handle_cmd_cnt_and_timer()
check it before queuing. Route the tx_work producers through the
same guard via a shared hci_sched_tx() helper.

Fixes: 525daaea459f ("Bluetooth: hci_sync: Set HCI_CMD_DRAIN_WORKQUEUE during device close")
Reported-by: syzbot+b6919040d9958e2fc1ae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Closes: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=b6919040d9958e2fc1ae
Signed-off-by: ThangNN99 <ngocthang2710.1999@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx>
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Artem Dinaburg <artem@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Hi,

Please consider this backport of the fix for CVE-2026-98297 to 6.6.y.

The code changes are identical to upstream.

The complete fix is already present in 6.12.y, 6.18.y and 7.2.y.

Build-tested only as part of a cumulative 6.6.y series on x86_64
(allmodconfig, CONFIG_WERROR=y); no runtime testing.

Thanks,
Artem Dinaburg

net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 17 ++++++++++++++---
1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
index d4fac0987dd8e6e03aa756788c80dc78bc9d8a86..3dcd8dff594603fc989182319fb84df97cc1c709 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
@@ -3233,6 +3233,17 @@ static void hci_queue_acl(struct hci_chan *chan, struct sk_buff_head *queue,
}
}

+/* Queue hdev->tx_work, unless hdev->workqueue is being drained by
+ * hci_dev_close_sync(), which would otherwise WARN and drop the work.
+ */
+static void hci_sched_tx(struct hci_dev *hdev)
+{
+ rcu_read_lock();
+ if (!hci_dev_test_flag(hdev, HCI_CMD_DRAIN_WORKQUEUE))
+ queue_work(hdev->workqueue, &hdev->tx_work);
+ rcu_read_unlock();
+}
+
void hci_send_acl(struct hci_chan *chan, struct sk_buff *skb, __u16 flags)
{
struct hci_dev *hdev = chan->conn->hdev;
@@ -3241,7 +3252,7 @@ void hci_send_acl(struct hci_chan *chan, struct sk_buff *skb, __u16 flags)

hci_queue_acl(chan, &chan->data_q, skb, flags);

- queue_work(hdev->workqueue, &hdev->tx_work);
+ hci_sched_tx(hdev);
}

/* Send SCO data */
@@ -3262,7 +3273,7 @@ void hci_send_sco(struct hci_conn *conn, struct sk_buff *skb)
hci_skb_pkt_type(skb) = HCI_SCODATA_PKT;

skb_queue_tail(&conn->data_q, skb);
- queue_work(hdev->workqueue, &hdev->tx_work);
+ hci_sched_tx(hdev);
}

/* Send ISO data */
@@ -3335,7 +3346,7 @@ void hci_send_iso(struct hci_conn *conn, struct sk_buff *skb)

hci_queue_iso(conn, &conn->data_q, skb);

- queue_work(hdev->workqueue, &hdev->tx_work);
+ hci_sched_tx(hdev);
}

/* ---- HCI TX task (outgoing data) ---- */