CVE-2026-98297 PUBLISHED

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix queuing tx_work after workqueue is drained

Assigner: Linux
Reserved: 25.09.2026 Published: 06.10.2026 Updated: 06.10.2026

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

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix queuing tx_work after workqueue is drained

hci_send_acl(), hci_send_sco() and hci_send_iso() queue hdev->tx_work unconditionally. They can run from the L2CAP/SCO/ISO socket send path while hci_dev_close_sync() is draining hdev->workqueue (HCIDEVDOWN racing with a socket write). Since that queue_work() is not chained work from the tx_work worker itself, __queue_work() sees the queue marked __WQ_DRAINING, warns "cannot queue %ps on wq %s", and drops the work:

WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 5985 at kernel/workqueue.c:2352 __queue_work Call Trace: queue_work_on l2cap_chan_send l2cap_sock_sendmsg ...

hci_dev_close_sync() already sets HCI_CMD_DRAIN_WORKQUEUE before draining, but only hci_cmd_work() and handle_cmd_cnt_and_timer() check it before queuing. Route the tx_work producers through the same guard via a shared hci_sched_tx() helper.

Product Status

Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: unaffected
  • affected from 9cebe4680bb9a72f80c6541eb24af06db7a1fbc9 to ab0678a0701ac4de499428dc1b321659bb74d272 (excl.)
  • affected from 47330cc875b36a1cf7b3543cb2cf90a7c603ce0e to e220c1242a643d97102a79f09b7ef3aa31276961 (excl.)
  • affected from 525daaea459fc215f432de1b8debbd9144bf97b0 to cbb325bc150e8c0dbce004ac0e5516bcffc0de31 (excl.)
  • affected from 525daaea459fc215f432de1b8debbd9144bf97b0 to 6610c6fe4b8936c232048e6049bf77c70a6f759c (excl.)
  • Version 60bceb9a4c693e68cc90ba4b2dfb9e000e8638ff is affected
  • affected from 6.12.93 to 6.12.112 (excl.)
  • affected from 6.18.35 to 6.18.54 (excl.)
  • affected from 7.0.12 to 7.1 (excl.)
Vendor Linux
Product Linux
Versions Default: affected
  • Version 7.1 is affected
  • unaffected from 0 to 7.1 (excl.)
  • unaffected from 6.12.112 to 6.12.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 6.18.54 to 6.18.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.2.8 to 7.2.* (incl.)
  • unaffected from 7.3-rc4 to * (incl.)

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