CVE-2026-43069

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:<br /> <br /> Bluetooth: hci_ll: Fix firmware leak on error path<br /> <br /> Smatch reports:<br /> <br /> drivers/bluetooth/hci_ll.c:587 download_firmware() warn:<br /> &amp;#39;fw&amp;#39; from request_firmware() not released on lines: 544.<br /> <br /> In download_firmware(), if request_firmware() succeeds but the returned<br /> firmware content is invalid (no data or zero size), the function returns<br /> without releasing the firmware, resulting in a resource leak.<br /> <br /> Fix this by calling release_firmware() before returning when<br /> request_firmware() succeeded but the firmware content is invalid.