linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 38
Total messages: 418 (271 human, 147 CI/bot)
linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 35
30 August 2026
Total messages: 250 (159 human, 91 CI/bot)
Note: Of the 250 messages, 159 are human-generated, 91 are CI/bot (bluez.test.bot: 47, patchwork-bot+bluetooth: 16, BluezTestBot: 13, kernel test robot: 4, syzbot: 4, bugzilla-daemon: 3, github-actions[bot]: 2, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf: 1, Sasha Levin: 1).
Summary
During week 35 (24 - 30 August 2026) the linux-bluetooth mailing list carried 250 messages, 159 from contributors and 91 from CI and bots. There were 56 human-initiated threads: 28 kernel patch series, 19 BlueZ userspace series and 9 discussions or reports. 16 patches were applied via patchwork and 13 commits were pushed to bluez repositories. The most active contributor was Pauli Virtanen (Independent) with 38 messages. 7 series went through more than one revision during the week.
Key Patch Series & Discussions
Kernel Patches
BlueZ Userspace Patches
Discussions & Bug Reports
| Topic | From | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Heap buffer overflow in adv_monitor.c via uint8_t truncation of pattern count | BUGPWN | 3 messages |
| MT7925 (0e8d:0717): HFP microphone unusable — firmware delivers zero-filled (e)S… | Daniel Minchev | 2 messages |
| Use-after-free in avdtp_connect_cb() (profiles/audio/avdtp.c) via unreferenced t… | BUGPWN | 2 messages |
| [BUG] WARNING in lowpan_compress_addr_64 | Farhad Alemi | 2 messages |
| [BUG] general protection fault in __l2cap_chan_add | Jaeyoung Chung | 2 messages |
| [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-08-24 | Luiz Augusto von Dentz | 2 messages |
| RTL8821C 0bda:c821: repeated controller failures with 4 persistent BLE connectio… | Rrealcrash | 1 message |
| [BUG] WARNING: ODEBUG bug in chan_close_cb | Farhad Alemi | 1 message |
Series Revised This Week
Top Contributors (by message count)
| Contributor | Affiliation | Messages |
|---|---|---|
| Pauli Virtanen | Independent | 38 |
| Luiz Augusto von Dentz | Intel | 25 |
| Bastien Nocera | Red Hat | 11 |
| Naga Bhavani Akella | Qualcomm | 8 |
| hadess | Red Hat | 6 |
| Chris Lu | MediaTek | 4 |
| Chandrashekar Devegowda | Intel | 4 |
| Gongwei Li | Independent | 3 |
| Radek Podgorny | Independent | 3 |
| Laxman Acharya Padhya | Independent | 3 |
Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)
Applied to bluetooth-next (kernel, via patchwork notifications)
- Bluetooth: do not leak an hci_conn when a second LE connect is rejecte
- Bluetooth: mt7925: trigger reset on WMT timeout
- Bluetooth: RFCOMM: serialize security confirmation handling
- Bluetooth: btusb: limit RTL8761B BROKEN_EXT_SCAN quirk to 0bda:a728
- Bluetooth: RFCOMM: serialize session teardown
- Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: Clear automask on spurious interrupts
Applied to BlueZ (via patchwork notifications)
- tools/iso-tester: fix GIOChannel refcounting
- Replace the name2utf8 copies with str2utf8
- build: Ignore the test-sdp-xml binary
- player: Fix crash and related defects around the pending request
- gobex: Fix ABORT response being discarded
- bass: Fix heap buffer overflow allocating subgroup_data array
- all: Fix typo in AVRCP_ATTRIBUTE_ILEGAL
- bap: Fix stack buffer overflow in BlueZ LE Audio BASE parser
- ranging: mode validation and
- SECURITY: Add top-level security doc
Pushed to bluez repositories
- build: Ignore the test-sdp-xml binary
- eir: Fix stack buffer overflow when parsing the re…
- SECURITY: Add top-level security doc
- btio: add BT_IO_OPT_FORCE_ACTIVE support for L2CAP…
- doc: Add org.bluez.Ranging1 documentation
- bap: Fix stack buffer overflow in BlueZ LE Audio B…
- bass: Fix heap buffer overflow allocating subgroup…
- all: Fix typo in AVRCP_ATTRIBUTE_ILEGAL
- avrcp: Fix out-of-bounds parsing of ListPlayerAttr…
- test-runner: Add support for PCIe passthrough
- client: Handle system bus setup failure
- emulator: bthost: add function for sending raw L2C…
- emulator: bthost: don’t crash on ecred_conn_req wi…
Company Focus Areas
Independent Contributors
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: fix and annotate l2cap_conn::chan_l locking
- Add support for the Synaptics BCM4384 Bluetooth controller
- Heap buffer overflow in adv_monitor.c via uint8_t truncation of pattern count
- emulator: bthost: add function for sending raw L2CAP sig commands
Intel
- Bluetooth: SCO: require CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE to bind
- Bluetooth: btusb: limit RTL8761B BROKEN_EXT_SCAN quirk to 0bda:a728
- Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: remove duplicate BTINTEL_PCIE_MAGIC_NUM definition
- test-runner: Add support for PCIe passthrough
Red Hat
- SECURITY: Add top-level security doc
- SECURITY: Add top-level security doc
- all: Fix typo in AVRCP_ATTRIBUTE_ILEGAL
- bap: Fix stack buffer overflow in BlueZ LE Audio BASE parser
MediaTek
- Bluetooth: btmtksdio: Stop discarding the hardware device id
- Bluetooth: btmtk: Route firmware debug event to the diag channel
