From: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
To: marcel@holtmann.org, johan.hedberg@gmail.com, luiz.dentz@gmail.com
Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, imv4bel@gmail.com
Subject: [PATCH] Bluetooth: RFCOMM: Validate MTU in rfcomm_apply_pn() to prevent infinite loop
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:14:58 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <abwS8q6yvVAGI-ci@v4bel> (raw)
rfcomm_apply_pn() accepts the MTU value from a remote PN (Parameter
Negotiation) frame without checking for zero. When the remote peer
sends an MTU of zero, d->mtu is set to 0. This causes the sendmsg
path to enter an infinite loop when fragmenting data, as each fragment
has size == min_t(size_t, len, 0) == 0, so the remaining length never
decreases. The infinite allocation of zero-length skbs exhausts all
system memory.
Fix by clamping d->mtu to RFCOMM_DEFAULT_MTU when the negotiated
value is zero, consistent with the initial value assigned in
rfcomm_dlc_alloc().
Fixes: 1da177e4c3f4 ("Linux-2.6.12-rc2")
Signed-off-by: Hyunwoo Kim <imv4bel@gmail.com>
---
net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
index 611a9a94151e..f9b428b1f1c8 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/rfcomm/core.c
@@ -1423,6 +1423,10 @@ static int rfcomm_apply_pn(struct rfcomm_dlc *d, int cr, struct rfcomm_pn *pn)
d->mtu = __le16_to_cpu(pn->mtu);
+ /* MTU 0 causes an infinite loop when fragmenting in sendmsg */
+ if (!d->mtu)
+ d->mtu = RFCOMM_DEFAULT_MTU;
+
if (cr && d->mtu > s->mtu)
d->mtu = s->mtu;
--
2.43.0
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