Re: [syzbot] [bluetooth?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Write in sco_chan_del

From: Ruihan Li
Date: Mon May 15 2023 - 12:05:50 EST


It seems that, while we remember to release unestablished SCO connections when
the ACL connection tears down (since [1]), we forget to call hci_connect_cfm
before hci_conn_del. Without hci_connect_cfm, the SCO socket may not be
notified to clean up its associated SCO connection (in sco_connect_cfm),
causing this use-after-free risk when operating the socket.

[1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-bluetooth/20230203173024.1.Ieb6662276f3bd3d79e9134ab04523d584c300c45@changeid/

However, I cannot figure out an easy and clear way to pass a proper error code
to hci_connect_cfm at this point, so I wonder if it is acceptable to use
HCI_ERROR_UNSPECIFIED directly. That said, the patch will look like this:

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
index f75ef12f1..73c120258 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
@@ -1102,8 +1102,10 @@ static void hci_conn_unlink(struct hci_conn *conn)
*/
if ((child->type == SCO_LINK ||
child->type == ESCO_LINK) &&
- child->handle == HCI_CONN_HANDLE_UNSET)
+ child->handle == HCI_CONN_HANDLE_UNSET) {
+ hci_connect_cfm(child, HCI_ERROR_UNSPECIFIED);
hci_conn_del(child);
+ }
}

return;

Also, while this fix can semantically be applied to v6.1 and above, an explicit
backport is required due to the hci_conn_unlink refactoring in the mainline.

Thanks,
Ruihan Li