[REJECTED CVE] A vulnerability was identified in the Linux kernel's Bluetooth: hci_core package, where a sleeping function (mutex_lock) was improperly invoked from an invalid context within the HCI event handling workqueue, potentially leading to kernel warnings or deadlocks. An attacker exploiting this flaw could trigger crafted Bluetooth events or malformed packets to indirectly cause system instability or denial of service through workqueue execution paths.
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix sleeping function called from invalid context This reworks hci_cb_list to not use mutex hci_cb_list_lock to avoid bugs like the bellow: BUG: sleeping function called from invalid context at kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 in_atomic(): 0, irqs_disabled(): 0, non_block: 0, pid: 5070, name: kworker/u9:2 preempt_count: 0, expected: 0 RCU nest depth: 1, expected: 0 4 locks held by kworker/u9:2/5070: #0: ffff888015be3948 ((wq_completion)hci0#2){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3229 [inline] #0: ffff888015be3948 ((wq_completion)hci0#2){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x8e0/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3335 #1: ffffc90003b6fd00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->rx_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3230 [inline] #1: ffffc90003b6fd00 ((work_completion)(&hdev->rx_work)){+.+.}-{0:0}, at: process_scheduled_works+0x91b/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3335 #2: ffff8880665d0078 (&hdev->lock){+.+.}-{3:3}, at: hci_le_create_big_complete_evt+0xcf/0xae0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:6914 #3: ffffffff8e132020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_lock_acquire include/linux/rcupdate.h:298 [inline] #3: ffffffff8e132020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: rcu_read_lock include/linux/rcupdate.h:750 [inline] #3: ffffffff8e132020 (rcu_read_lock){....}-{1:2}, at: hci_le_create_big_complete_evt+0xdb/0xae0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:6915 CPU: 0 PID: 5070 Comm: kworker/u9:2 Not tainted 6.8.0-syzkaller-08073-g480e035fc4c7 #0 Hardware name: Google Google Compute Engine/Google Compute Engine, BIOS Google 03/27/2024 Workqueue: hci0 hci_rx_work Call Trace: <TASK> __dump_stack lib/dump_stack.c:88 [inline] dump_stack_lvl+0x241/0x360 lib/dump_stack.c:114 __might_resched+0x5d4/0x780 kernel/sched/core.c:10187 __mutex_lock_common kernel/locking/mutex.c:585 [inline] __mutex_lock+0xc1/0xd70 kernel/locking/mutex.c:752 hci_connect_cfm include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2004 [inline] hci_le_create_big_complete_evt+0x3d9/0xae0 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:6939 hci_event_func net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7514 [inline] hci_event_packet+0xa53/0x1540 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c:7569 hci_rx_work+0x3e8/0xca0 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:4171 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3254 [inline] process_scheduled_works+0xa00/0x1770 kernel/workqueue.c:3335 worker_thread+0x86d/0xd70 kernel/workqueue.c:3416 kthread+0x2f0/0x390 kernel/kthread.c:388 ret_from_fork+0x4b/0x80 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:147 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:243 </TASK>