Bug 2541338 (CVE-2026-98109) - CVE-2026-98109 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix race condition during device registration
Summary: CVE-2026-98109 kernel: Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix race condition during device ...
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Status: NEW
Alias: CVE-2026-98109
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Reported: 2026-09-25 11:27 UTC by OSIDB Bzimport
Modified: 2026-09-28 12:19 UTC (History)
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Description OSIDB Bzimport 2026-09-25 11:27:26 UTC
In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: hci_core: Fix race condition during device registration

In hci_register_dev(), the power_on work item is queued to
hdev->req_workqueue before initializing hdev->adv_monitors_idr and
registering the MSFT extension via msft_register(). For devices marked with
quirks such as HCI_QUIRK_RAW_DEVICE, the HCI_UNCONFIGURED flag is set on
the device. When the power_on work item runs concurrently on another CPU,
hci_power_on() detects that the device is unconfigured and immediately
invokes hci_dev_do_close(), which calls msft_do_close().

Concurrently, msft_register() allocates the msft structure and exposes it
to hdev->msft_data prior to calling mutex_init(&msft->filter_lock). If
msft_do_close() executes while hdev->msft_data is already assigned but the
mutex has not yet been initialized, mutex_lock(&msft->filter_lock) operates
on an uninitialized mutex, triggering a DEBUG_LOCKS warning:

DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->magic != lock)
WARNING: kernel/locking/mutex.c:625 at __mutex_lock_common
kernel/locking/mutex.c:625 [inline]
WARNING: kernel/locking/mutex.c:625 at __mutex_lock+0x12d8/0x1550
kernel/locking/mutex.c:821
...
Call Trace:
 <TASK>
 msft_do_close+0x308/0x7b0 net/bluetooth/msft.c:693
 hci_dev_close_sync+0x86b/0x10a0 net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5522
 hci_dev_do_close net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:499 [inline]
 hci_power_on+0x32c/0x750 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:937
 process_one_work kernel/workqueue.c:3322 [inline]
 process_scheduled_works+0xa8e/0x14e0 kernel/workqueue.c:3405
 worker_thread+0x92d/0xe10 kernel/workqueue.c:3486
 kthread+0x388/0x470 kernel/kthread.c:436
 ret_from_fork+0x514/0xb70 arch/x86/kernel/process.c:158
 ret_from_fork_asm+0x1a/0x30 arch/x86/entry/entry_64.S:245
 </TASK>

Fix this by moving the queue_work() call in hci_register_dev() to after
idr_init(&hdev->adv_monitors_idr) and msft_register(hdev) so that device
structures and extensions are fully initialized before asynchronous tasks
can access them. Additionally, assign hdev->msft_data in msft_register()
only after mutex_init(&msft->filter_lock) has completed.


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