diff --git a/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c b/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
index bcbc11c9cb15..a2290ffdc2c1 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/af_bluetooth.c
@@ -305,7 +305,7 @@ struct sock *bt_accept_dequeue(struct sock *parent, struct socket *newsock)
 
 restart:
 	for (sk = bt_accept_get(parent, NULL); sk; sk = next) {
-		/* Prevent early freeing of sk due to unlink and sock_kill */
+		/* The reference from bt_accept_get() keeps sk alive. */
 		lock_sock(sk);
 
 		/* Check sk has not already been unlinked via
@@ -321,13 +321,11 @@ struct sock *bt_accept_dequeue(struct sock *parent, struct socket *newsock)
 
 		next = bt_accept_get(parent, sk);
 
-		/* sk is safely in the parent list so reduce reference count */
-		sock_put(sk);
-
 		/* FIXME: Is this check still needed */
 		if (sk->sk_state == BT_CLOSED) {
 			bt_accept_unlink(sk);
 			release_sock(sk);
+			sock_put(sk);
 			continue;
 		}
 
@@ -337,16 +335,6 @@ struct sock *bt_accept_dequeue(struct sock *parent, struct socket *newsock)
 			if (newsock)
 				sock_graft(sk, newsock);
 
-			/* Hand the caller a reference taken while sk is
-			 * still locked.  bt_accept_unlink() just dropped
-			 * the accept-queue reference; without this hold a
-			 * concurrent teardown (e.g. l2cap_conn_del() ->
-			 * l2cap_sock_kill()) could free sk between
-			 * release_sock() and the caller using it.  Every
-			 * caller drops this with sock_put() when done.
-			 */
-			sock_hold(sk);
-
 			release_sock(sk);
 			if (next)
 				sock_put(next);
@@ -354,6 +342,7 @@ struct sock *bt_accept_dequeue(struct sock *parent, struct socket *newsock)
 		}
 
 		release_sock(sk);
+		sock_put(sk);
 	}
 
 	return NULL;
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
index 4853f1b33449..de56ca691afa 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c
@@ -1492,8 +1492,8 @@ static void l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen(struct sock *parent)
 
 	/* Close not yet accepted channels.
 	 *
-	 * bt_accept_dequeue() now returns sk with an extra reference held
-	 * (taken while sk was still locked) so a concurrent l2cap_conn_del()
+	 * bt_accept_dequeue() returns sk with its temporary queue-walk
+	 * reference held, so a concurrent l2cap_conn_del()
 	 * -> l2cap_sock_kill() cannot free sk under us.
 	 *
 	 * cleanup_listen() runs under the parent sk lock, so unlike