linux/net/bluetooth
Stig Hornang 6e1930ece8 Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix tx ident leak for commands without a response
Commit 6c3ea155e5 ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix not tracking outstanding
TX ident") changed ident allocation to use an IDA, releasing idents in
l2cap_put_ident() when the matching response command is received.

But identifiers allocated for commands that have no response defined
are never released. In particular L2CAP_LE_CREDITS is sent repeatedly for
the lifetime of an LE CoC channel, so a peer streaming data to the
host exhausts the 1-255 ident range after 254 credit packets. From
then on l2cap_get_ident() fails:

    kernel: Bluetooth: Unable to allocate ident: -28

and every subsequent L2CAP_LE_CREDITS packet is sent with ident 0,
which is invalid (Core Spec, Vol 3, Part A, Section 4: "Signaling
identifier 0x00 is an invalid identifier and shall never be used in
any command"). Remote stacks that validate the ident drop these
commands, never receive new credits, and the channel stalls
permanently. With default socket buffers this happens after roughly 0.5 MB
of received data (the exact amount depends on the socket receive buffer):

  < ACL Data TX: Handle 2048 flags 0x00 dlen 12
        LE L2CAP: LE Flow Control Credit (0x16) ident 0 len 4
          Source CID: 64
          Credits: 1

Release the ident immediately after sending L2CAP_LE_CREDITS since no
response will ever release it. Use a local variable instead of
chan->ident so that an ident that an EXT_FLOWCTL channel may be waiting on
(e.g. a pending reconfigure) is not overwritten by a credit packet.

Also add the missing L2CAP_LE_CONN_RSP case to l2cap_put_ident() so
idents allocated for outgoing L2CAP_LE_CONN_REQ commands are released
when the response arrives.

Fixes: 6c3ea155e5 ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix not tracking outstanding TX ident")
Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=221629
Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4.8
Assisted-by: Fable:5
Signed-off-by: Stig Hornang <stig@hornang.me>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
2026-07-06 10:46:58 -04:00
..
bnep Bluetooth: bnep: pin L2CAP connection during netdev registration 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
hidp Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
rfcomm Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
6lowpan.c Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() 2026-07-06 10:46:58 -04:00
af_bluetooth.c Bluetooth: fix UAF in bt_accept_dequeue() 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
aosp.c Bluetooth: aosp: Fix typo in comment 2025-07-23 10:30:18 -04:00
aosp.h Bluetooth: aosp: Support AOSP Bluetooth Quality Report 2021-11-02 19:37:52 +01:00
coredump.c Bluetooth: hci_devcd_dump: fix out-of-bounds via dev_coredumpv 2025-07-23 10:33:57 -04:00
ecdh_helper.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
ecdh_helper.h Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
eir.c Bluetooth: eir: Fix stack OOB write when prepending the Flags AD 2026-06-11 14:24:40 -04:00
eir.h Bluetooth: eir: Fix possible crashes on eir_create_adv_data 2025-06-11 16:29:22 -04:00
hci_codec.c Bluetooth: hci: validate codec capability element length 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
hci_codec.h Bluetooth: Add support for Read Local Supported Codecs V2 2021-09-07 14:09:18 -07:00
hci_conn.c Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix null ptr deref in hci_abort_conn() 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
hci_core.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
hci_debugfs.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
hci_debugfs.h Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
hci_drv.c Bluetooth: Introduce HCI Driver protocol 2025-05-21 10:28:07 -04:00
hci_event.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
hci_sock.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
hci_sync.c Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix null ptr deref in hci_abort_conn() 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
hci_sysfs.c Bluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_dev() 2026-06-03 11:22:28 -04:00
iso.c Bluetooth: ISO: fix malformed ISO_END/CONT handling 2026-07-06 10:46:58 -04:00
Kconfig Bluetooth: SMP: Use AES-CMAC library API 2026-06-11 14:24:38 -04:00
l2cap_core.c Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix tx ident leak for commands without a response 2026-07-06 10:46:58 -04:00
l2cap_sock.c Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() 2026-07-06 10:46:58 -04:00
leds.c Bluetooth: Use led_set_brightness() in LED trigger activate() callback 2024-09-10 13:06:11 -04:00
leds.h treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - rule 500 2019-06-19 17:09:55 +02:00
lib.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
Makefile net: remove ISDN subsystem and Bluetooth CMTP 2026-04-23 10:24:02 -07:00
mgmt_config.c Bluetooth: mgmt: Add idle_timeout to configurable system parameters 2026-01-29 13:24:22 -05:00
mgmt_config.h Bluetooth: mgmt: Add commands for runtime configuration 2020-06-18 13:11:03 +03:00
mgmt_util.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
mgmt_util.h Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
mgmt.c Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix adv monitor add failure cleanup 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
msft.c Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix adv monitor add failure cleanup 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
msft.h Bluetooth: msft: fix slab-use-after-free in msft_do_close() 2024-05-03 13:05:28 -04:00
sco.c Bluetooth: sco: Fix a race condition in sco_sock_timeout() 2026-07-06 10:46:57 -04:00
selftest.c Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
selftest.h Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00
smp.c Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix use-after-free in l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() 2026-07-06 10:46:58 -04:00
smp.h Bluetooth: Add SPDX id lines to some source files 2026-06-11 14:24:41 -04:00