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Bluetooth: use hdev lock for accept_list and reject_list in conn req

PATCH Applied Niels Dossche 3 participants 3 messages Apr 6, 2022 – Apr 22, 2022

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PATCH v2 1/1 Bluetooth: use hdev lock for accept_list and reject_list in conn req

All accesses (both reads and modifications) to hdev->{accept,reject}_list are protected by hdev lock, except the ones in hci_conn_request_evt. This can cause a race condition in the form of a list corruption.
The solution is to protect these lists in hci_conn_request_evt as well.

I was unable to find the exact commit that introduced the issue for the reject list, I was only able to find it for the accept list.

Fixes a55bd29d5227 ("Bluetooth: Add white list lookup for incoming connection requests")

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Changes in v2:
- edited commit message to exclude note
- used an exit goto label instead

Note:
I am currently working on a static analyser to detect missing locks using type-based static analysis as my master's thesis
in order to obtain my master's degree.
If you would like to have more details, please let me know. This was a reported case. I manually verified the report by looking at the code, so that I do not send wrong information or patches. After concluding that this seems to be a true positive, I created this patch. I have both compile-tested this patch and runtime-tested this patch on x86_64. The effect on a running system could be a potential race condition in exceptional cases.
This issue was found on Linux v5.17.1.

 net/bluetooth/hci_event.c | 15 +++++++++------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
net/bluetooth/hci_event.c +9 -6
index abaabfae19cc..02a77f676da4 100644
@@ -3222,10 +3222,12 @@ static void hci_conn_request_evt(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data,
 		return;
 	}
 
+	hci_dev_lock(hdev);
+
 	if (hci_bdaddr_list_lookup(&hdev->reject_list, &ev->bdaddr,
 				   BDADDR_BREDR)) {
 		hci_reject_conn(hdev, &ev->bdaddr);
-		return;
+		goto unlock;
 	}
 
 	/* Require HCI_CONNECTABLE or an accept list entry to accept the
@@ -3237,13 +3239,11 @@ static void hci_conn_request_evt(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data,
 	    !hci_bdaddr_list_lookup_with_flags(&hdev->accept_list, &ev->bdaddr,
 					       BDADDR_BREDR)) {
 		hci_reject_conn(hdev, &ev->bdaddr);
-		return;
+		goto unlock;
 	}
 
 	/* Connection accepted */
 
-	hci_dev_lock(hdev);
-
 	ie = hci_inquiry_cache_lookup(hdev, &ev->bdaddr);
 	if (ie)
 		memcpy(ie->data.dev_class, ev->dev_class, 3);
@@ -3255,8 +3255,7 @@ static void hci_conn_request_evt(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data,
 				    HCI_ROLE_SLAVE);
 		if (!conn) {
 			bt_dev_err(hdev, "no memory for new connection");
-			hci_dev_unlock(hdev);
-			return;
+			goto unlock;
 		}
 	}
 
@@ -3296,6 +3295,10 @@ static void hci_conn_request_evt(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *data,
 		conn->state = BT_CONNECT2;
 		hci_connect_cfm(conn, 0);
 	}
+
+	return;
+unlock:
+	hci_dev_unlock(hdev);
 }
 
 static u8 hci_to_mgmt_reason(u8 err)
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This patch was applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master) by Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>:

Hello:

This patch was applied to bluetooth/bluetooth-next.git (master) by Marcel Holtmann <[email protected]>:

Quoted 10 lines · On Tue, 5 Apr 2022 19:37:52 +0200 you wrote:

All accesses (both reads and modifications) to hdev->{accept,reject}_list are protected by hdev lock, except the ones in hci_conn_request_evt. This can cause a race condition in the form of a list corruption.
The solution is to protect these lists in hci_conn_request_evt as well.

I was unable to find the exact commit that introduced the issue for the reject list, I was only able to find it for the accept list.

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Here is the summary with links:
- [v2] Bluetooth: use hdev lock for accept_list and reject_list in conn req

    https://git.kernel.org/bluetooth/bluetooth-next/c/1072b8391c7c

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