CVE-2024-58238

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Resolve TX timeout error in power save stress test

State
Published
Severity
7.1 High
Published
Aug 9, 2025
Updated
Oct 15, 2026
Reserved
Apr 16, 2025

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Description

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

Bluetooth: btnxpuart: Resolve TX timeout error in power save stress test

This fixes the tx timeout issue seen while running a stress test on btnxpuart for couple of hours, such that the interval between two HCI commands coincide with the power save timeout value of 2 seconds.

Test procedure using bash script: <load btnxpuart.ko> hciconfig hci0 up //Enable Power Save feature hcitool -i hci0 cmd 3f 23 02 00 00 while (true) do hciconfig hci0 leadv sleep 2 hciconfig hci0 noleadv sleep 2 done

Error log, after adding few more debug prints: Bluetooth: btnxpuart_queue_skb(): 01 0A 20 01 00 Bluetooth: hci0: Set UART break: on, status=0 Bluetooth: hci0: btnxpuart_tx_wakeup() tx_work scheduled Bluetooth: hci0: btnxpuart_tx_work() dequeue: 01 0A 20 01 00 Can't set advertise mode on hci0: Connection timed out (110) Bluetooth: hci0: command 0x200a tx timeout

When the power save mechanism turns on UART break, and btnxpuart_tx_work() is scheduled simultaneously, psdata->ps_state is read as PS_STATE_AWAKE, which prevents the psdata->work from being scheduled, which is responsible to turn OFF UART break.

This issue is fixed by adding a ps_lock mutex around UART break on/off as well as around ps_state read/write. btnxpuart_tx_wakeup() will now read updated ps_state value. If ps_state is PS_STATE_SLEEP, it will first schedule psdata->work, and then it will reschedule itself once UART break has been turned off and ps_state is PS_STATE_AWAKE.

Tested above script for 50,000 iterations and TX timeout error was not observed anymore.

Scores

CVSSScoreVectorSource
3.17.1 HighCVSS:3.1/AV:A/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HLinux

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 689ca16e523278470c38832a3010645a78c544d8 to before 9d5df94ce0e213d5b549633f528f96114c736190Affected
  • 689ca16e523278470c38832a3010645a78c544d8 to before e4db90e4eb8d5487098712ffb1048f3fa6d25e98Affected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.4Affected
  • before 6.4Not affected
  • 6.6.49 through 6.6.*Not affected
  • 6.9 and laterNot affected

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