[PATCH] Bluetooth: SCO: fix refcount over-put in sco_conn_del()
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Date: Thu Jul 23 2026 - 18:10:43 EST
From: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@xxxxxxxxx>
sco_conn_del() takes exactly one transient reference to the sco_conn via
sco_conn_hold_unless_zero() and drops it with the sco_conn_put() that
follows sco_sock_hold(). The additional sco_conn_put() in the !sk branch
drops a reference the function never acquired:
conn = sco_conn_hold_unless_zero(conn);
if (!conn)
return;
...
sco_conn_lock(conn);
sk = sco_sock_hold(conn);
sco_conn_unlock(conn);
sco_conn_put(conn);
if (!sk) {
sco_conn_put(conn); /* drops a reference we do not own */
return;
}
sco_sock_timeout() has the same entry semantics -- one
sco_conn_hold_unless_zero(), no incoming reference owned -- and simply
returns from its !sk branch with no second put.
In steady state the only counted reference to a struct sco_conn is the
one held by the socket. When close() races the controller's Disconnection
Complete, sco_chan_del() clears conn->sk and drops the socket reference
while sco_conn_del() is running. sco_conn_del() then observes sk == NULL,
its own put drops the count to zero and frees the conn, and the second put
writes to the freed kref:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in sco_conn_put.part.0+0x1a/0x190
Write of size 4 at addr ffff8881099dec74 by task kworker/u17:3/413
Workqueue: hci1 hci_rx_work
Call Trace:
sco_conn_put.part.0+0x1a/0x190
hci_disconn_complete_evt+0x1ee/0x3e0
hci_event_packet+0x54a/0x650
hci_rx_work+0x321/0x3d0
Allocated by task 413:
sco_conn_add+0x72/0x1a0
sco_connect_cfm+0x88/0x670
hci_conn_complete_evt+0x4c5/0x890
Freed by task 413:
sco_conn_del.isra.0+0x3f/0xf0
hci_disconn_complete_evt+0x1ee/0x3e0
refcount_t: underflow; use-after-free.
The freed object is a kmalloc-128 allocation, so this is an out-of-bounds
write into a reclaimed slab object rather than a plain crash. Opening an
SCO socket requires no capability, and the race is reached whenever the
controller delivers a Disconnection Complete concurrently with the socket
being closed.
A related refcount imbalance introduced by the same commit was already
fixed in commit ed9588554943 ("Bluetooth: SCO: remove the redundant
sco_conn_put").
Drop the extra put so the !sk branch simply returns.
Fixes: e6720779ae61 ("Bluetooth: SCO: Use kref to track lifetime of sco_conn")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Aldo Ariel Panzardo <qwe.aldo@xxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bluetooth/sco.c | 6 ++----
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/sco.c b/net/bluetooth/sco.c
index fcc597be5bbd..6502fcdfc0f0 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/sco.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/sco.c
@@ -265,10 +265,8 @@ static void sco_conn_del(struct hci_conn *hcon, int err)
sco_conn_unlock(conn);
sco_conn_put(conn);
- if (!sk) {
- sco_conn_put(conn);
+ if (!sk)
return;
- }
/* Kill socket */
lock_sock(sk);
--
2.43.0