FAILED: patch "[PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_conn: fix potential UAF in create_big_sync" failed to apply to 6.18-stable tree

[<gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

The patch below does not apply to the 6.18-stable tree.
If someone wants it applied there, or to any other stable or longterm
tree, then please email the backport, including the original git commit
id to <stable@vger.kernel.org>.

To reproduce the conflict and resubmit, you may use the following commands:

git fetch https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux.git/ linux-6.18.y
git checkout FETCH_HEAD
git cherry-pick -x 0beddb0c380bed5f5b8e61ddbe14635bb73d0b41
# <resolve conflicts, build, test, etc.>
git commit -s
git send-email --to '<stable@vger.kernel.org>' --in-reply-to '2026051229-supermom-spiral-1d44@gregkh' --subject-prefix 'PATCH 6.18.y' HEAD^..

Possible dependencies:



thanks,

greg k-h

------------------ original commit in Linus's tree ------------------

From 0beddb0c380bed5f5b8e61ddbe14635bb73d0b41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2026 21:29:16 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Bluetooth: hci_conn: fix potential UAF in create_big_sync

Add hci_conn_valid() check in create_big_sync() to detect stale
connections before proceeding with BIG creation. Handle the
resulting -ECANCELED in create_big_complete() and re-validate the
connection under hci_dev_lock() before dereferencing, matching the
pattern used by create_le_conn_complete() and create_pa_complete().

Keep the hci_conn object alive across the async boundary by taking
a reference via hci_conn_get() when queueing create_big_sync(), and
dropping it in the completion callback. The refcount and the lock
are complementary: the refcount keeps the object allocated, while
hci_dev_lock() serializes hci_conn_hash_del()'s list_del_rcu() on
hdev->conn_hash, as required by hci_conn_del().

hci_conn_put() is called outside hci_dev_unlock() so the final put
(which resolves to kfree() via bt_link_release) does not run under
hdev->lock, though the release path would be safe either way.

Without this, create_big_complete() would unconditionally
dereference the conn pointer on error, causing a use-after-free
via hci_connect_cfm() and hci_conn_del().

Fixes: eca0ae4aea66 ("Bluetooth: Add initial implementation of BIS connections")
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Co-developed-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David Carlier <devnexen@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
index 3a0592599086..96e345fcf303 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c
@@ -2130,6 +2130,9 @@ static int create_big_sync(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data)
 	u32 flags = 0;
 	int err;
 
+	if (!hci_conn_valid(hdev, conn))
+		return -ECANCELED;
+
 	if (qos->bcast.out.phys == BIT(1))
 		flags |= MGMT_ADV_FLAG_SEC_2M;
 
@@ -2204,11 +2207,24 @@ static void create_big_complete(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data, int err)
 
 	bt_dev_dbg(hdev, "conn %p", conn);
 
+	if (err == -ECANCELED)
+		goto done;
+
+	hci_dev_lock(hdev);
+
+	if (!hci_conn_valid(hdev, conn))
+		goto unlock;
+
 	if (err) {
 		bt_dev_err(hdev, "Unable to create BIG: %d", err);
 		hci_connect_cfm(conn, err);
 		hci_conn_del(conn);
 	}
+
+unlock:
+	hci_dev_unlock(hdev);
+done:
+	hci_conn_put(conn);
 }
 
 struct hci_conn *hci_bind_bis(struct hci_dev *hdev, bdaddr_t *dst, __u8 sid,
@@ -2336,10 +2352,11 @@ struct hci_conn *hci_connect_bis(struct hci_dev *hdev, bdaddr_t *dst,
 				 BT_BOUND, &data);
 
 	/* Queue start periodic advertising and create BIG */
-	err = hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, create_big_sync, conn,
+	err = hci_cmd_sync_queue(hdev, create_big_sync, hci_conn_get(conn),
 				 create_big_complete);
 	if (err < 0) {
 		hci_conn_drop(conn);
+		hci_conn_put(conn);
 		return ERR_PTR(err);
 	}