Bug 2492818 (CVE-2026-53252) - CVE-2026-53252 kernel: Bluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_dev()
Summary: CVE-2026-53252 kernel: Bluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-53252
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-06-25 10:07 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-06-26 01:17 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-06-25 10:07:23 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_dev()

Early failures in Bluetooth HCI UART configuration leak SRCU percpu
memory.

When device initialization fails before hci_register_dev() completes,
the HCI_UNREGISTER flag is never set. As a result, when the device
reference count reaches zero, bt_host_release() evaluates this flag as
false and falls back to a direct kfree(hdev).

Because hci_release_dev() is bypassed, the SRCU struct initialized
early in hci_alloc_dev() is never cleaned up, resulting in a leak of
percpu memory.

Fix the leak by explicitly calling cleanup_srcu_struct() in the
fallback (unregistered) branch of bt_host_release() before freeing
the device.


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