Bug 2373486 (CVE-2022-50166) - CVE-2022-50166 kernel: Bluetooth: When HCI work queue is drained, only queue chained work
Summary: CVE-2022-50166 kernel: Bluetooth: When HCI work queue is drained, only queue ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2022-50166
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2025-06-18 12:05 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2025-09-12 15:09 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2025-06-18 12:05:12 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: When HCI work queue is drained, only queue chained work

The HCI command, event, and data packet processing workqueue is drained
to avoid deadlock in commit
76727c02c1e1 ("Bluetooth: Call drain_workqueue() before resetting state").

There is another delayed work, which will queue command to this drained
workqueue. Which results in the following error report:

Bluetooth: hci2: command 0x040f tx timeout
WARNING: CPU: 1 PID: 18374 at kernel/workqueue.c:1438 __queue_work+0xdad/0x1140
Workqueue: events hci_cmd_timeout
RIP: 0010:__queue_work+0xdad/0x1140
RSP: 0000:ffffc90002cffc60 EFLAGS: 00010093
RAX: 0000000000000000 RBX: ffff8880b9d3ec00 RCX: 0000000000000000
RDX: ffff888024ba0000 RSI: ffffffff814e048d RDI: ffff8880b9d3ec08
RBP: 0000000000000008 R08: 0000000000000000 R09: 00000000b9d39700
R10: ffffffff814f73c6 R11: 0000000000000000 R12: ffff88807cce4c60
R13: 0000000000000000 R14: ffff8880796d8800 R15: ffff8880796d8800
FS:  0000000000000000(0000) GS:ffff8880b9d00000(0000) knlGS:0000000000000000
CS:  0010 DS: 0000 ES: 0000 CR0: 0000000080050033
CR2: 000000c0174b4000 CR3: 000000007cae9000 CR4: 00000000003506e0
DR0: 0000000000000000 DR1: 0000000000000000 DR2: 0000000000000000
DR3: 0000000000000000 DR6: 00000000fffe0ff0 DR7: 0000000000000400
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 ? queue_work_on+0xcb/0x110
 ? lockdep_hardirqs_off+0x90/0xd0
 queue_work_on+0xee/0x110
 process_one_work+0x996/0x1610
 ? pwq_dec_nr_in_flight+0x2a0/0x2a0
 ? rwlock_bug.part.0+0x90/0x90
 ? _raw_spin_lock_irq+0x41/0x50
 worker_thread+0x665/0x1080
 ? process_one_work+0x1610/0x1610
 kthread+0x2e9/0x3a0
 ? kthread_complete_and_exit+0x40/0x40
 ret_from_fork+0x1f/0x30
 </TASK>

To fix this, we can add a new HCI_DRAIN_WQ flag, and don't queue the
timeout workqueue while command workqueue is draining.

Comment 1 Avinash Hanwate 2025-06-19 23:57:20 UTC
Upstream advisory:
https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cve-announce/2025061827-CVE-2022-50166-5ecc@gregkh/T


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