From: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx> commit 5f397409f8ee5bc82901eeaf799e1cbc4f8edcf1 upstream. A NULL sock pointer is passed into l2cap_sock_alloc() when it is called from l2cap_sock_new_connection_cb() and the error handling paths should also be aware of it. Seemingly a more elegant solution would be to swap bt_sock_alloc() and l2cap_chan_create() calls since they are not interdependent to that moment but then l2cap_chan_create() adds the soon to be deallocated and still dummy-initialized channel to the global list accessible by many L2CAP paths. The channel would be removed from the list in short period of time but be a bit more straight-forward here and just check for NULL instead of changing the order of function calls. Found by Linux Verification Center (linuxtesting.org) with SVACE static analysis tool. Fixes: 7c4f78cdb8e7 ("Bluetooth: L2CAP: do not leave dangling sk pointer on error in l2cap_sock_create()") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Fedor Pchelkin <pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Kuniyuki Iwashima <kuniyu@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c +++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_sock.c @@ -1864,7 +1864,8 @@ static struct sock *l2cap_sock_alloc(str chan = l2cap_chan_create(); if (!chan) { sk_free(sk); - sock->sk = NULL; + if (sock) + sock->sk = NULL; return NULL; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from pchelkin@xxxxxxxxx are queue-5.10/bluetooth-l2cap-handle-null-sock-pointer-in-l2cap_sock_alloc.patch queue-5.10/bluetooth-l2cap-accept-zero-as-a-special-value-for-mtu-auto-selection.patch