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([49.205.241.70]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9443c01a7336-2bf23c43f0asm110782775ad.77.2026.05.31.09.30.48 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256/256); Sun, 31 May 2026 09:30:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Bharath Reddy To: marcel@holtmann.org, luiz.dentz@gmail.com Cc: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Bharath Reddy , syzbot+535ecc844591e50588a5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Subject: [PATCH v2] Bluetooth: fix memory leak in error path of hci_alloc_dev() Date: Sun, 31 May 2026 22:00:32 +0530 Message-Id: <20260531163032.102728-1-kbreddy.rpbc@gmail.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 2.34.1 Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Early failures in Bluetooth HCI UART configuration leak SRCU percpu memory. When device initialization fails before hci_register_dev() completes, the HCI_UNREGISTER flag is never set. As a result, when the device reference count reaches zero, bt_host_release() evaluates this flag as false and falls back to a direct kfree(hdev). Because hci_release_dev() is bypassed, the SRCU struct initialized early in hci_alloc_dev() is never cleaned up, resulting in a leak of percpu memory. Fix the leak by explicitly calling cleanup_srcu_struct() in the fallback (unregistered) branch of bt_host_release() before freeing the device. Reported-by: syzbot+535ecc844591e50588a5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Tested-by: syzbot+535ecc844591e50588a5@syzkaller.appspotmail.com Signed-off-by: Bharath Reddy --- net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c index 041ce9adc378..74131f2c3be6 100644 --- a/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c +++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_sysfs.c @@ -85,8 +85,10 @@ static void bt_host_release(struct device *dev) =20 if (hci_dev_test_flag(hdev, HCI_UNREGISTER)) hci_release_dev(hdev); - else + else { + cleanup_srcu_struct(&hdev->srcu); kfree(hdev); + } module_put(THIS_MODULE); } =20 --=20 2.34.1