[PATCH v2 1/3] Bluetooth: L2CAP: avoid maybe-return-locked in l2cap_get_chan_by_scid/dcid

From: Pauli Virtanen

Date: Tue Jul 14 2026 - 04:45:34 EST


Replace the maybe-return-locked pattern in l2cap_get_chan_by_scid/dcid()
by doing locking in the caller after NULL check. This allows adding
context analysis annotations for the locking.

Signed-off-by: Pauli Virtanen <pav@xxxxxx>
---

Notes:
v2:
- split code changes and adding annotations to separate patches
- remove self-evident comment

net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 28 ++++++++++++++++------------
1 file changed, 16 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
index 538ae9aa3479..322a1895c1bd 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *__l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
}

/* Find channel with given SCID.
- * Returns a reference locked channel.
+ * Returns a reference.
*/
static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
u16 cid)
@@ -117,18 +117,14 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
struct l2cap_chan *c;

c = __l2cap_get_chan_by_scid(conn, cid);
- if (c) {
- /* Only lock if chan reference is not 0 */
+ if (c)
c = l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero(c);
- if (c)
- l2cap_chan_lock(c);
- }

return c;
}

/* Find channel with given DCID.
- * Returns a reference locked channel.
+ * Returns a reference.
*/
static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_dcid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
u16 cid)
@@ -136,12 +132,8 @@ static struct l2cap_chan *l2cap_get_chan_by_dcid(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
struct l2cap_chan *c;

c = __l2cap_get_chan_by_dcid(conn, cid);
- if (c) {
- /* Only lock if chan reference is not 0 */
+ if (c)
c = l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero(c);
- if (c)
- l2cap_chan_lock(c);
- }

return c;
}
@@ -4364,6 +4356,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_config_req(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
return 0;
}

+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
if (chan->state != BT_CONFIG && chan->state != BT_CONNECT2 &&
chan->state != BT_CONNECTED) {
cmd_reject_invalid_cid(conn, cmd->ident, chan->scid,
@@ -4475,6 +4469,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_config_rsp(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
if (!chan)
return 0;

+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
switch (result) {
case L2CAP_CONF_SUCCESS:
l2cap_conf_rfc_get(chan, rsp->data, len);
@@ -4581,6 +4577,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_disconnect_req(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
return 0;
}

+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
rsp.dcid = cpu_to_le16(chan->scid);
rsp.scid = cpu_to_le16(chan->dcid);
l2cap_send_cmd(conn, cmd->ident, L2CAP_DISCONN_RSP, sizeof(rsp), &rsp);
@@ -4618,6 +4616,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_disconnect_rsp(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
return 0;
}

+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
if (chan->state != BT_DISCONN) {
l2cap_chan_unlock(chan);
l2cap_chan_put(chan);
@@ -5115,6 +5115,8 @@ static inline int l2cap_le_credits(struct l2cap_conn *conn,
if (!chan)
return -EBADSLT;

+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
max_credits = LE_FLOWCTL_MAX_CREDITS - chan->tx_credits;
if (credits > max_credits) {
BT_ERR("LE credits overflow");
@@ -6974,6 +6976,8 @@ static void l2cap_data_channel(struct l2cap_conn *conn, u16 cid,
return;
}

+ l2cap_chan_lock(chan);
+
BT_DBG("chan %p, len %d", chan, skb->len);

/* If we receive data on a fixed channel before the info req/rsp
--
2.55.0