linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 21

Total messages: 300 (179 human, 121 CI/bot)

Note: Of the 300 messages, 179 are human-generated, 121 are CI/bot (bluez.test.bot: 50, bugzilla-daemon: 21, patchwork-bot+bluetooth: 18, BluezTestBot: 15, github-actions[bot]: 4, kernel test robot: 4, prathibhamadugonde: 4, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf: 2, syzbot: 2, Sasha Levin: 1).

Summary

During week 21 (18 - 24 May 2026) the linux-bluetooth mailing list carried 300 messages, 179 from contributors and 121 from CI and bots. There were 68 human-initiated threads: 48 kernel patch series, 16 BlueZ userspace series and 4 discussions or reports. 18 patches were applied via patchwork and 13 commits were pushed to bluez repositories. The most active contributor was Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) with 34 messages. 10 series went through more than one revision during the week.

Key Patch Series & Discussions

Kernel Patches

BlueZ Userspace Patches

Discussions & Bug Reports

Series Revised This Week

Top Contributors (by message count)

Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)

Applied to bluetooth-next (kernel, via patchwork notifications)

• Bluetooth: MGMT: validate Add Extended Advertising Data length
• Bluetooth: btmtk: fix urb->setup_packet leak in error paths
• Bluetooth: hci_uart: fix UAFs and race conditions in close and init pa
• Bluetooth: fix UAF in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen() vs l2cap_conn_del()
• Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix chan ref leak in l2cap_chan_timeout() on !conn
• Bluetooth: btmtk: remove extra copy in cmd array init
• Bluetooth: hci_conn: Fix memory leak in hci_le_big_terminate()
• Bluetooth: L2CAP: use chan timer to close channels in cleanup_listen()
• Bluetooth: HIDP: fix missing length checks in hidp_input_report()
• Bluetooth: btusb: Allow firmware re-download when version matches
• Bluetooth: btusb: Allow firmware re-download when version matches

Applied to BlueZ (via patchwork notifications)

• shared/rap: fix use of uninitialized value
• device: fix inverted NULL check in gatt_db clone
• tester.config: add missing CRYPTO_AES
• client/btpclient: Add GAP extended advertising support
• shared/bap: Fix unused value in qos
• doc: Fix Data Path direction in btmin-le-audio.rst
• shared/bap: set QoS state when CIS is lost

Pushed to bluez repositories

• client/btpclient: refactor read-commands bitmap bu…
• client/btpclient: Fix GAP unpair command
• gitlint: ignore lines with URLs and enable regex-s…
• ci: add verify_fixes and verify_signedoff checks f…
• ci: use HEAD^2 in verify scripts to skip GitHub me…
• all: Fix “exit” typos
• tester.config: add missing CRYPTO_AES
• shared/bap: Fix unused value in qos
• doc: Fix Data Path direction in btmin-le-audio.rst
• test-mesh-crypto: Don’t attempt to run test if AF_…
• monitor: Add support for HCI Event Encryption Chan…
• shared/bap: set QoS state when CIS is lost
• adapter: Add configurable default LE PHYs

Company Focus Areas

Independent Contributors

• Bluetooth: L2CAP: rate-limit ECHO_RSP per signaling PDU
• Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix slab-use-after-free in l2cap_sock_cleanup_listen()
• Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject BR/EDR signaling packets over MTUsig
• Bluetooth: L2CAP: reject BR/EDR signaling packets over MTUsig

Qualcomm

• arm64: dts: qcom: monaco-arduino-monza: Add QCA2066 M.2 WiFi/BT support
• Bluetooth: hci_qca: Increase SSR delay for rampatch and NVM loading
• Bluetooth: hci_qca: Support QCA2066 on M.2 connector via pwrseq
• Bluetooth: btusb: Allow firmware re-download when version matches

Collabora

• client/btpclient: Add GAP extended advertising support
• client/btpclient: Fix GAP unpair command
• client/btpclient: Fix GAP unpair command

Intel

• [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-05-20
• Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix possible crash on l2cap_ecred_conn_rsp
• test-mesh-crypto: Don’t attempt to run test if AF_ALG is not available

Google

• monitor: Add support for HCI Event Encryption Change v2