[PATCH v3] Bluetooth: ISO: fix use-after-free of listener socket in iso_conn_ready
From: Hang Nan
Date: Tue Aug 18 2026 - 07:34:04 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->***() 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>
---
Changes in v3:
- Move the changelog below the "---" separator so it is not part
of the commit message
- Shorten the comment in iso_conn_ready()
Changes in v2:
- Fix GitLint B3: replace hard tabs with spaces in the commit
message code snippet (no functional change)
net/bluetooth/iso.c | 8 ++++++++
1 file changed, 8 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 +2277,14 @@ static void iso_conn_ready(struct iso_conn *conn)
lock_sock(parent);
+ /* The listener may have been closed concurrently. */
+ if (parent->sk_state != BT_LISTEN ||
+ (parent, SOCK_ZAPPED)) {
+ release_sock_flagsock(parent);
+ sock_put(parent);
+ return;
+ }
+
sk = iso_sock_alloc(sock_net(parent), NULL,
BTPROTO_ISO, GFP_ATOMIC, 0);
if (!sk) {