diff --git a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
index ddf33900f7f320b435e3b94c45db9f9246647040..91995f8ab0a0dd410bc922373376fa24054273c9 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/hci_core.c
@@ -4661,8 +4661,12 @@ static void hci_queue_acl(struct hci_chan *chan, struct sk_buff_head *queue,
 
 		skb_shinfo(skb)->frag_list = NULL;
 
-		/* Queue all fragments atomically */
-		spin_lock(&queue->lock);
+		/* Queue all fragments atomically. We need to use spin_lock_bh
+		 * here because of 6LoWPAN links, as there this function is
+		 * called from softirq and using normal spin lock could cause
+		 * deadlocks.
+		 */
+		spin_lock_bh(&queue->lock);
 
 		__skb_queue_tail(queue, skb);
 
@@ -4679,7 +4683,7 @@ static void hci_queue_acl(struct hci_chan *chan, struct sk_buff_head *queue,
 			__skb_queue_tail(queue, skb);
 		} while (list);
 
-		spin_unlock(&queue->lock);
+		spin_unlock_bh(&queue->lock);
 	}
 }