linux-cve-announce - CVE-2023-53520: Bluetooth: Fix hci_suspend

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Message-ID: <2025100133-CVE-2023-53520-a542@gregkh>
Date: Wed,  1 Oct 2025 13:46:12 +0200
From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: linux-cve-announce@...r.kernel.org
Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...nel.org>
Subject: CVE-2023-53520: Bluetooth: Fix hci_suspend_sync crash

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

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

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

Bluetooth: Fix hci_suspend_sync crash

If hci_unregister_dev() frees the hci_dev object but hci_suspend_notifier
may still be accessing it, it can cause the program to crash.
Here's the call trace:
  <4>[102152.653246] Call Trace:
  <4>[102152.653254]  hci_suspend_sync+0x109/0x301 [bluetooth]
  <4>[102152.653259]  hci_suspend_dev+0x78/0xcd [bluetooth]
  <4>[102152.653263]  hci_suspend_notifier+0x42/0x7a [bluetooth]
  <4>[102152.653268]  notifier_call_chain+0x43/0x6b
  <4>[102152.653271]  __blocking_notifier_call_chain+0x48/0x69
  <4>[102152.653273]  __pm_notifier_call_chain+0x22/0x39
  <4>[102152.653276]  pm_suspend+0x287/0x57c
  <4>[102152.653278]  state_store+0xae/0xe5
  <4>[102152.653281]  kernfs_fop_write+0x109/0x173
  <4>[102152.653284]  __vfs_write+0x16f/0x1a2
  <4>[102152.653287]  ? selinux_file_permission+0xca/0x16f
  <4>[102152.653289]  ? security_file_permission+0x36/0x109
  <4>[102152.653291]  vfs_write+0x114/0x21d
  <4>[102152.653293]  __x64_sys_write+0x7b/0xdb
  <4>[102152.653296]  do_syscall_64+0x59/0x194
  <4>[102152.653299]  entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x5c/0xc1

This patch holds the reference count of the hci_dev object while
processing it in hci_suspend_notifier to avoid potential crash
caused by the race condition.

The Linux kernel CVE team has assigned CVE-2023-53520 to this issue.


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

	Fixed in 6.1.55 with commit 06e2b5ad72b60f90bfe565c201346532e271f484
	Fixed in 6.5.5 with commit f9c8ce5d665653e3cf71a76349d41d7a7f7947e6
	Fixed in 6.6 with commit 573ebae162111063eedc6c838a659ba628f66a0f

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-2023-53520
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:
	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/06e2b5ad72b60f90bfe565c201346532e271f484
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/f9c8ce5d665653e3cf71a76349d41d7a7f7947e6
	https://git.kernel.org/stable/c/573ebae162111063eedc6c838a659ba628f66a0f