Re: [PATCH] Bluetooth: skip invalid hci_sync_conn_complete_evt

From: Marcel Holtmann
Date: Thu Jul 22 2021 - 10:39:17 EST


Hi Desmond,

> Syzbot reported a corrupted list in kobject_add_internal [1]. This
> happens when multiple HCI_EV_SYNC_CONN_COMPLETE event packets with
> status 0 are sent for the same HCI connection. This causes us to
> register the device more than once which corrupts the kset list.

and that is actually forbidden by the spec. So we need to complain loudly that such a device is misbehaving.

> To fix this, in hci_sync_conn_complete_evt, we check whether we're
> trying to process the same HCI_EV_SYNC_CONN_COMPLETE event multiple
> times for one connection. If that's the case, the event is invalid, so
> we skip further processing and exit.
>
> Link: https://syzkaller.appspot.com/bug?extid=66264bf2fd0476be7e6c [1]
> Reported-by: syzbot+66264bf2fd0476be7e6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Tested-by: syzbot+66264bf2fd0476be7e6c@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Desmond Cheong Zhi Xi <desmondcheongzx@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 2 ++
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> index 016b2999f219..091a92338492 100644
> --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_event.c
> @@ -4373,6 +4373,8 @@ static void hci_sync_conn_complete_evt(struct hci_dev *hdev,
>
> switch (ev->status) {
> case 0x00:
> + if (conn->state == BT_CONNECTED)
> + goto unlock; /* Already connected, event not valid */

The comment has go above and be a lot more details since this is not expected behavior from valid hardware and we should add a bt_dev_err as well.

> conn->handle = __le16_to_cpu(ev->handle);
> conn->state = BT_CONNECTED;
> conn->type = ev->link_type;

Regards

Marcel