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Mikhail Gavrilov 91b5a598b5 Bluetooth: l2cap: defer conn param update to avoid conn->lock/hdev->lock inversion
When a BLE peripheral sends an L2CAP Connection Parameter Update Request
the processing path is:

  process_pending_rx()          [takes conn->lock]
    l2cap_le_sig_channel()
      l2cap_conn_param_update_req()
        hci_le_conn_update()    [takes hdev->lock]

Meanwhile other code paths take the locks in the opposite order:

  l2cap_chan_connect()          [takes hdev->lock]
    ...
      mutex_lock(&conn->lock)

  l2cap_conn_ready()            [hdev->lock via hci_cb_list_lock]
    ...
      mutex_lock(&conn->lock)

This is a classic AB/BA deadlock which lockdep reports as a circular
locking dependency when connecting a BLE MIDI keyboard (Carry-On FC-49).

Fix this by making hci_le_conn_update() defer the HCI command through
hci_cmd_sync_queue() so it no longer needs to take hdev->lock in the
caller context.  The sync callback uses __hci_cmd_sync_status_sk() to
wait for the HCI_EV_LE_CONN_UPDATE_COMPLETE event, then updates the
stored connection parameters (hci_conn_params) and notifies userspace
(mgmt_new_conn_param) only after the controller has confirmed the update.

A reference on hci_conn is held via hci_conn_get()/hci_conn_put() for
the lifetime of the queued work to prevent use-after-free, and
hci_conn_valid() is checked before proceeding in case the connection was
removed while the work was pending.  The hci_dev_lock is held across
hci_conn_valid() and all conn field accesses to prevent a concurrent
disconnect from invalidating the connection mid-use.

Fixes: f044eb0524 ("Bluetooth: Store latency and supervision timeout in connection params")
Signed-off-by: Mikhail Gavrilov <mikhail.v.gavrilov@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Paul Menzel <pmenzel@molgen.mpg.de>
Signed-off-by: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
2026-05-06 16:20:51 -04:00
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