Bluetooth: Fix reference counting for LE-scan based connections

index 2ebcaaa6b855..4c240c1cb2cb 100644
@@ -99,12 +99,41 @@ static void hci_connect_le_scan_cleanup(struct hci_conn *conn)
 	}
 }
 
+static void hci_conn_cleanup(struct hci_conn *conn)
+{
+	struct hci_dev *hdev = conn->hdev;
+
+	if (test_bit(HCI_CONN_PARAM_REMOVAL_PEND, &conn->flags))
+		hci_conn_params_del(conn->hdev, &conn->dst, conn->dst_type);
+
+	hci_chan_list_flush(conn);
+
+	hci_conn_hash_del(hdev, conn);
+
+	if (hdev->notify)
+		hdev->notify(hdev, HCI_NOTIFY_CONN_DEL);
+
+	hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn);
+
+	debugfs_remove_recursive(conn->debugfs);
+
+	hci_dev_put(hdev);
+
+	hci_conn_put(conn);
+}
+
 /* This function requires the caller holds hdev->lock */
 static void hci_connect_le_scan_remove(struct hci_conn *conn)
 {
 	hci_connect_le_scan_cleanup(conn);
 
-	hci_conn_hash_del(conn->hdev, conn);
+	/* We can't call hci_conn_del here since that would deadlock
+	 * with trying to call cancel_delayed_work_sync(&conn->disc_work).
+	 * Instead, call just hci_conn_cleanup() which contains the bare
+	 * minimum cleanup operations needed for a connection in this
+	 * state.
+	 */
+	hci_conn_cleanup(conn);
 }
 
 static void hci_acl_create_connection(struct hci_conn *conn)

@@ -582,27 +611,17 @@ int hci_conn_del(struct hci_conn *conn)
 		}
 	}
 
-	hci_chan_list_flush(conn);
-
 	if (conn->amp_mgr)
 		amp_mgr_put(conn->amp_mgr);
 
-	hci_conn_hash_del(hdev, conn);
-	if (hdev->notify)
-		hdev->notify(hdev, HCI_NOTIFY_CONN_DEL);
-
 	skb_queue_purge(&conn->data_q);
 
-	hci_conn_del_sysfs(conn);
-
-	debugfs_remove_recursive(conn->debugfs);
-
-	if (test_bit(HCI_CONN_PARAM_REMOVAL_PEND, &conn->flags))
-		hci_conn_params_del(conn->hdev, &conn->dst, conn->dst_type);
-
-	hci_dev_put(hdev);
-
-	hci_conn_put(conn);
+	/* Remove the connection from the list and cleanup its remaining
+	 * state. This is a separate function since for some cases like
+	 * BT_CONNECT_SCAN we *only* want the cleanup part without the
+	 * rest of hci_conn_del.
+	 */
+	hci_conn_cleanup(conn);
 
 	return 0;
 }