CVE-2026-23462

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

Bluetooth: HIDP: Fix possible UAF

This fixes the following trace caused by not dropping l2cap_conn
reference when user->remove callback is called:

[   97.809249] l2cap_conn_free: freeing conn ffff88810a171c00
[   97.809907] CPU: 1 UID: 0 PID: 1419 Comm: repro_standalon Not tainted 7.0.0-rc1-dirty #14 PREEMPT(lazy)
[   97.809935] Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS 1.17.0-debian-1.17.0-1 04/01/2014
[   97.809947] Call Trace:
[   97.809954]  <TASK>
[   97.809961]  dump_stack_lvl (lib/dump_stack.c:122)
[   97.809990]  l2cap_conn_free (net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1808)
[   97.810017]  l2cap_conn_del (./include/linux/kref.h:66 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1821 net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:1798)
[   97.810055]  l2cap_disconn_cfm (net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7347 (discriminator 1) net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7340 (discriminator 1))
[   97.810086]  ? __pfx_l2cap_disconn_cfm (net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c:7341)
[   97.810117]  hci_conn_hash_flush (./include/net/bluetooth/hci_core.h:2152 (discriminator 2) net/bluetooth/hci_conn.c:2644 (discriminator 2))
[   97.810148]  hci_dev_close_sync (net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5360)
[   97.810180]  ? __pfx_hci_dev_close_sync (net/bluetooth/hci_sync.c:5285)
[   97.810212]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810242]  ? up_write (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic64_64.h:87 (discriminator 5) ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:2852 (discriminator 5) ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-long.h:268 (discriminator 5) ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-instrumented.h:3391 (discriminator 5) kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1385 (discriminator 5) kernel/locking/rwsem.c:1643 (discriminator 5))
[   97.810267]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810290]  ? rcu_is_watching (./arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:23 ./include/linux/atomic/atomic-arch-fallback.h:457 ./include/linux/context_tracking.h:128 kernel/rcu/tree.c:752)
[   97.810320]  hci_unregister_dev (net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:504 net/bluetooth/hci_core.c:2716)
[   97.810346]  vhci_release (drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:691)
[   97.810375]  ? __pfx_vhci_release (drivers/bluetooth/hci_vhci.c:678)
[   97.810404]  __fput (fs/file_table.c:470)
[   97.810430]  task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:235)
[   97.810451]  ? __pfx_task_work_run (kernel/task_work.c:201)
[   97.810472]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810495]  ? do_raw_spin_unlock (./include/asm-generic/qspinlock.h:128 (discriminator 5) kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:142 (discriminator 5))
[   97.810527]  do_exit (kernel/exit.c:972)
[   97.810547]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810574]  ? __pfx_do_exit (kernel/exit.c:897)
[   97.810594]  ? lock_acquire (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:470 (discriminator 6) kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5870 (discriminator 6) kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5825 (discriminator 6))
[   97.810616]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810639]  ? do_raw_spin_lock (kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:95 (discriminator 4) kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c:118 (discriminator 4))
[   97.810664]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810688]  ? find_held_lock (kernel/locking/lockdep.c:5350 (discriminator 1))
[   97.810721]  do_group_exit (kernel/exit.c:1093)
[   97.810745]  get_signal (kernel/signal.c:3007 (discriminator 1))
[   97.810772]  ? security_file_permission (./arch/x86/include/asm/jump_label.h:37 security/security.c:2366)
[   97.810803]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810826]  ? vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:555)
[   97.810854]  ? __pfx_get_signal (kernel/signal.c:2800)
[   97.810880]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810905]  ? __pfx_vfs_read (fs/read_write.c:555)
[   97.810932]  ? srso_alias_return_thunk (arch/x86/lib/retpoline.S:221)
[   97.810960]  arch_do_signal_or_restart (arch/
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