Message-ID: <2025070934-CVE-2025-38250-3145@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  9 Jul 2025 12:42:42 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2025-38250: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix use-after-free in vhci_flush()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>

Description
===========

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

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix use-after-free in vhci_flush()

syzbot reported use-after-free in vhci_flush() without repro. [0]

>>From the splat, a thread close()d a vhci file descriptor while
its device was being used by iotcl() on another thread.

Once the last fd refcnt is released, vhci_release() calls
hci_unregister_dev(), hci_free_dev(), and kfree() for struct
vhci_data, which is set to hci_dev->dev->driver_data.

The problem is that there is no synchronisation after unlinking
hdev from hci_dev_list in hci_unregister_dev().  There might be
another thread still accessing the hdev which was fetched before
the unlink operation.

We can use SRCU for such synchronisation.

Let's run hci_dev_reset() under SRCU and wait for its completion
in hci_unregister_dev().

Another option would be to restore hci_dev->destruct(), which was
removed in commit 587ae086f6e4 ("Bluetooth: Remove unused
hci-destruct cb").  However, this would not be a good solution, as
we should not run hci_unregister_dev() while there are in-flight
ioctl() requests, which could lead to another data-race KCSAN splat.

Note that other drivers seem to have the same problem, for exmaple,
virtbt_remove().

[0]:
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_queue_empty_lockless include/linux/skbuff.h:1891 [inline]
BUG: KASAN: slab-use-after-free in skb_queue_purge_reason+0x99/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:3937
Read of size 8 at addr ffff88807cb8d858 by task syz.1.219/6718

CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 6718 Comm: syz.1.219 Not tainted 6.16.0-rc1-syzkaller-00196-g08207f42d3ff #0 PREEMPT(full)
Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 05/07/2025
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 dump_stack_lvl+0x189/0x250 lib/dump_stack.c:120
 print_address_description mm/kasan/report.c:408 [inline]
 print_report+0xd2/0x2b0 mm/kasan/report.c:521
 kasan_report+0x118/0x150 mm/kasan/report.c:634
 skb_queue_empty_lockless include/linux/skbuff.h:1891 [inline]
 skb_queue_purge_reason+0x99/0x360 net/core/skbuff.c:3937
 skb_queue_purge include/linux/skbuff.h:3368 [inline]
 vhci_flush+0x44/0x50 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:69
 hci_dev_do_reset net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:552 [inline]
 hci_dev_reset+0x420/0x5c0 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:592
 sock_do_ioctl+0xd9/0x300 net/socket.c:1190
 sock_ioctl+0x576/0x790 net/socket.c:1311
 vfs_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:51 [inline]
 __do_sys_ioctl fs/ioctl.c:907 [inline]
 __se_sys_ioctl+0xf9/0x170 fs/ioctl.c:893
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f
RIP: 0033:0x7fcf5b98e929
Code: ff ff c3 66 2e 0f 1f 84 00 00 00 00 00 0f 1f 40 00 48 89 f8 48 89 f7 48 89 d6 48 89 ca 4d 89 c2 4d 89 c8 4c 8b 4c 24 08 0f 05 <48> 3d 01 f0 ff ff 73 01 c3 48 c7 c1 a8 ff ff ff f7 d8 64 89 01 48
RSP: 002b:00007fcf5c7b9038 EFLAGS: 00000246 ORIG_RAX: 0000000000000010
RAX: ffffffffffffffda RBX: 00007fcf5bbb6160 RCX: 00007fcf5b98e929
RDX: 0000000000000000 RSI: 00000000400448cb RDI: 0000000000000009
RBP: 00007fcf5ba10b39 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 0000000000000000
R10: 0000000000000000 R11: 0000000000000246 R12: 0000000000000000
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: 00007fcf5bbb6160 R15: 00007ffd6353d528
 </TASK>

Allocated by task 6535:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 poison_kmalloc_redzone mm/kasan/common.c:377 [inline]
 __kasan_kmalloc+0x93/0xb0 mm/kasan/common.c:394
 kasan_kmalloc include/linux/kasan.h:260 [inline]
 __kmalloc_cache_noprof+0x230/0x3d0 mm/slub.c:4359
 kmalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:905 [inline]
 kzalloc_noprof include/linux/slab.h:1039 [inline]
 vhci_open+0x57/0x360 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:635
 misc_open+0x2bc/0x330 drivers/char/misc.c:161
 chrdev_open+0x4c9/0x5e0 fs/char_dev.c:414
 do_dentry_open+0xdf0/0x1970 fs/open.c:964
 vfs_open+0x3b/0x340 fs/open.c:1094
 do_open fs/namei.c:3887 [inline]
 path_openat+0x2ee5/0x3830 fs/namei.c:4046
 do_filp_open+0x1fa/0x410 fs/namei.c:4073
 do_sys_openat2+0x121/0x1c0 fs/open.c:1437
 do_sys_open fs/open.c:1452 [inline]
 __do_sys_openat fs/open.c:1468 [inline]
 __se_sys_openat fs/open.c:1463 [inline]
 __x64_sys_openat+0x138/0x170 fs/open.c:1463
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

Freed by task 6535:
 kasan_save_stack mm/kasan/common.c:47 [inline]
 kasan_save_track+0x3e/0x80 mm/kasan/common.c:68
 kasan_save_free_info+0x46/0x50 mm/kasan/generic.c:576
 poison_slab_object mm/kasan/common.c:247 [inline]
 __kasan_slab_free+0x62/0x70 mm/kasan/common.c:264
 kasan_slab_free include/linux/kasan.h:233 [inline]
 slab_free_hook mm/slub.c:2381 [inline]
 slab_free mm/slub.c:4643 [inline]
 kfree+0x18e/0x440 mm/slub.c:4842
 vhci_release+0xbc/0xd0 drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:671
 __fput+0x44c/0xa70 fs/file_table.c:465
 task_work_run+0x1d1/0x260 kernel/task_work.c:227
 exit_task_work include/linux/task_work.h:40 [inline]
 do_exit+0x6ad/0x22e0 kernel/exit.c:955
 do_group_exit+0x21c/0x2d0 kernel/exit.c:1104
 __do_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1115 [inline]
 __se_sys_exit_group kernel/exit.c:1113 [inline]
 __x64_sys_exit_group+0x3f/0x40 kernel/exit.c:1113
 x64_sys_call+0x21ba/0x21c0 arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_64.h:232
 do_syscall_x64 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:63 [inline]
 do_syscall_64+0xfa/0x3b0 arch/x86/entry/syscall_64.c:94
 entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x77/0x7f

The buggy address belongs to the object at ffff88807cb8d800
 which belongs to the cache kmalloc-1k of size 1024
The buggy address is located 88 bytes inside of
 freed 1024-byte region [ffff88807cb8d800, ffff88807cb8dc00)

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2025-38250 to this issue.


Affected and fixed versions
===========================

	Issue introduced in 3.4 with commit bf18c7118cf83ad4b9aa476354b4a06bcb9d0c4f and fixed in 6.12.36 with commit ce23b73f0f27e2dbeb81734a79db710f05aa33c6
	Issue introduced in 3.4 with commit bf18c7118cf83ad4b9aa476354b4a06bcb9d0c4f and fixed in 6.15.5 with commit 0e5c144c557df910ab64d9c25d06399a9a735e65
	Issue introduced in 3.4 with commit bf18c7118cf83ad4b9aa476354b4a06bcb9d0c4f and fixed in 6.16-rc4 with commit 1d6123102e9fbedc8d25bf4731da6d513173e49e

Please see https://www.kernel.org for a full list of currently supported
kernel versions by the kernel community.

Unaffected versions might change over time as fixes are backported to
older supported kernel versions.  The official CVE entry at
	https://cve.org/CVERecord/?id=CVE-2025-38250
will be updated if fixes are backported, please check that for the most
up to date information about this issue.


Affected files
==============

The file(s) affected by this issue are:
	include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h
	net/bluetooth/hci_core.c


Mitigation
==========

The Linux kernel CVE team recommends that you update to the latest
stable kernel version for this, and many other bugfixes.  Individual
changes are never tested alone, but rather are part of a larger kernel
release.  Cherry-picking individual commits is not recommended or
supported by the Linux kernel community at all.  If however, updating to
the latest release is impossible, the individual changes to resolve this
issue can be found at these commits:
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/ce23b73f0f27e2dbeb81734a79db710f05aa33c6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/0e5c144c557df910ab64d9c25d06399a9a735e65
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/1d6123102e9fbedc8d25bf4731da6d513173e49e

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