CVE-2026-90091 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix race l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs. put_chan

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 11.09.2026 Published: 17.09.2026 Updated: 17.09.2026

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix race l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs. put_chan

For L2CAP sockets without owning sk->sk_socket, reading l2cap_pi(sk)->chan may race against concurrent l2cap_sock_kill() -> l2cap_sock_put_chan(). This excludes simultaneous proto_ops callbacks, but access in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() has unsafe lockless read.

[Task 1] [Task 2 (hdev->workqueue)] l2cap_sock_release(parent) l2cap_disconn_cfm l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen l2cap_conn_del bt_accept_dequeue l2cap_chan_del lock_sock(sk) l2cap_sock_teardown_cb bt_accept_unlink bt_sk(sk)->parent = NULL release_sock(sk) ----------------> lock_sock(sk) parent = / NULL / lock_sock(sk) <--------------------- release_sock(sk) sock_set_flag(sk, SOCK_ZAPPED) l2cap_sock_close_cb l2cap_sock_kill(sk) l2cap_sock_put_chan chan = READ l2cap_pi(sk)->chan l2cap_pi(sk)->chan = NULL l2cap_chan_hold_unless_zero l2cap_put_chan(chan) kref_get_unless_zero(&chan->ref)

Task 1 may observe NULL which causes null-ptr-deref.

Fix the race by taking lock_sock() in l2cap_sock_kill() to synchronize with l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen(). hold_unless_zero() is not needed here, l2cap_pi(sk)->chan owns reference if it is non-NULL.

Clarify code comments vs. locking.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from b39298044e5534612511a2ff5de03ba5f6e7a820 to 827de6bd2865b22aaabd554540def3b8a33018ab (excl.)
  • affected from 8c37e4338c801ebb8cee52436c01c41e009f6e87 to 7c7ac736b50fa259ed1bdddc18d79523f07c0442 (excl.)
  • affected from 84e718b6a814edc84159361f9f454a4e92ae91ae to 4f8c63fe0097c9f6ea34409f82f79b3894903d91 (excl.)
  • affected from 36da806f7fbaee56ad9e81859deec203f9728700 to 61d5ddbd524c715b224cbe7e9f01da4e05098b19 (excl.)
  • affected from 6fef032af0092ed5ccb767239a9ac1bc38c08a40 to 32a7bc6e93be36b37fe61f351d312d358195bd61 (excl.)
  • affected from 6fef032af0092ed5ccb767239a9ac1bc38c08a40 to 66d6ef18548ae6d7dd452b84115fc82c0a73a4ea (excl.)
  • Version 733e76e74e406c1d1ddc7369420dd8a47f48bb8a is affected
  • affected from 6.1.178 to 6.1.188 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.6.145 to 6.6.157 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.12.97 to 6.12.110 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.18.40 to 6.18.52 (excl.)
  • affected from 7.1.5 to 7.2 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.2 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.2 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.1.188 to 6.1.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.6.157 to 6.6.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.110 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.52 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.6 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc1 to * (incl.)

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