[PATCH 2/4] Bluetooth: coredump: Fix btmon heap-buffer-overflow

From: Zijun Hu

Date: Sun Sep 13 2026 - 23:44:12 EST


The collected coredump data can exceed btmon's maximum packet size of
1490 bytes, But hci_devcd_dump() forwards the entire coredump data as an
HCI_DIAG_PKT without checking its size, causing below issue in btmon.

Why ?

For a monitor packet, its payload length @len in header may exceed
BTSNOOP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE, btmon uses it to access payload in @buf.
so cause heap-buffer-overflow.

Kernel:
include/net/bluetooth/hci_mon.h
struct hci_mon_hdr {
__le16 opcode;
__le16 index;
__le16 len;
} __packed;

BlueZ:
src/shared/btsnoop.h
monitor/control.c
struct control_data {
uint16_t channel;
int fd;
unsigned char buf[BTSNOOP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE];
uint16_t offset;
};

Issue:
ERROR: AddressSanitizer: heap-buffer-overflow on address 0x51b00000065c at pc 0x7f50b987a029 bp 0x7ffde88dc8d0 sp 0x7ffde88dc088
READ of size 17916 at 0x51b00000065c thread T0
#0 0x7f50b987a028 in write ../../../../src/libsanitizer/sanitizer_common/sanitizer_common_interceptors.inc:1096
#1 0x5b4f3443ae3a in btsnoop_write ../src/shared/btsnoop.c:289
#2 0x5b4f3429cbf0 in data_callback ../monitor/control.c:969
#3 0x5b4f3444fa9d in mainloop_run ../src/shared/mainloop.c:104
#4 0x5b4f34451da6 in mainloop_run_with_signal ../src/shared/mainloop-notify.c:196
#5 0x5b4f342953fc in main ../monitor/main.c:303
#6 0x7f50b8c2a1c9 in __libc_start_call_main ../sysdeps/nptl/libc_start_call_main.h:58
#7 0x7f50b8c2a28a in __libc_start_main_impl ../csu/libc-start.c:360
#8 0x5b4f34295ed4 in _start (/usr/bin/btmon+0x29fed4) (BuildId: b41caafb24db693946c283eaea48112186863d2d)

Fix by forwarding the collected dump data as an HCI_DIAG_PKT only when
its size <= 1490.

Fixes: b257e02ecc46 ("HCI: coredump: Log devcd dumps into the monitor")
Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
net/bluetooth/coredump.c | 17 ++++++++++++-----
1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/coredump.c b/net/bluetooth/coredump.c
index 71fc8dab4004..61b45ba58a65 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/coredump.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/coredump.c
@@ -250,36 +250,43 @@ static void hci_devcd_handle_pkt_pattern(struct hci_dev *hdev,
}

pattern = skb_pull_data(skb, sizeof(*pattern));

if (!hci_devcd_memset(hdev, pattern->pattern, pattern->len))
bt_dev_dbg(hdev, "Failed to set pattern");
}

+/* Align with BlueZ's BTSNOOP_MAX_PACKET_SIZE. */
+#define HCI_DEVCD_DIAG_MAX_SIZE (1486 + 4)
+
static void hci_devcd_dump(struct hci_dev *hdev)
{
struct sk_buff *skb;
u32 size;

bt_dev_dbg(hdev, "state %s", hci_devcd_state_name(hdev->dump.state));

size = hdev->dump.tail - hdev->dump.head;

- /* Send a copy to monitor as a diagnostic packet */
- skb = bt_skb_alloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
- if (skb) {
- skb_put_data(skb, hdev->dump.head, size);
- hci_recv_diag(hdev, skb);
+ if (size <= HCI_DEVCD_DIAG_MAX_SIZE) {
+ /* Send a copy to monitor as a diagnostic packet */
+ skb = bt_skb_alloc(size, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ if (skb) {
+ skb_put_data(skb, hdev->dump.head, size);
+ hci_recv_diag(hdev, skb);
+ }
}

/* Emit a devcoredump with the available data */
dev_coredumpv(&hdev->dev, hdev->dump.head, size, GFP_KERNEL);
}

+#undef HCI_DEVCD_DIAG_MAX_SIZE
+
static void hci_devcd_handle_pkt_complete(struct hci_dev *hdev,
struct sk_buff *skb)
{
u32 dump_size;

if (hdev->dump.state != HCI_DEVCOREDUMP_ACTIVE) {
DBG_UNEXPECTED_STATE();
return;

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