CVE-2026-97908 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: btqcomsmd: destroy RPMsg endpoints before freeing hci_dev

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 25.09.2026 Updated: 25.09.2026

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

Bluetooth: btqcomsmd: destroy RPMsg endpoints before freeing hci_dev

The command and ACL RPMsg endpoints store struct btqcomsmd as their callback private data. The receive callbacks dereference btq->hdev without taking an hci_dev reference.

The current teardown order frees the hci_dev before destroying the RPMsg endpoints in both the hci_register_dev() error path and the driver remove path. If WCNSS delivers data in that window, the endpoint callback can run with an already freed hci_dev and pass it to the Bluetooth core.

For qcom_smd endpoints, rpmsg_destroy_ept() closes the channel and clears the callback under the channel recv_lock. The receive path holds the same lock while invoking the callback, so destroying the endpoints first both prevents new callbacks and serializes with any callback already running.

Destroy the command and ACL endpoints before hci_free_dev(). Keep hci_unregister_dev() first during remove so the HCI core stops issuing operations before the transport endpoints are shut down. In the full registration-error cleanup path, return directly after freeing the hci_dev to avoid falling through to the partial-construction labels and destroying the endpoints twice.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 5052de8deff5619a9b7071f00084fd0264b58e17 to 962dcc1d8a52e64428cae07806e7f6b8d3ec6ac0 (excl.)
  • affected from 5052de8deff5619a9b7071f00084fd0264b58e17 to 2dcc2240b4e5f6e5dce1736f82666aba40eb3b13 (excl.)
  • affected from 5052de8deff5619a9b7071f00084fd0264b58e17 to 2d016208a011558f211ec9687889df8318654730 (excl.)
  • affected from 5052de8deff5619a9b7071f00084fd0264b58e17 to f5a427b16e45210dee656b0860728f3d496dee85 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 4.12 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 4.12 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.111 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.53 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.7 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc3 to * (incl.)

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