linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 44
Total messages: 298 (189 human, 109 CI/bot)
linux-bluetooth Weekly Report - Week 41
11 October 2026
Total messages: 352 (208 human, 144 CI/bot)
Note: Of the 352 messages, 208 are human-generated, 144 are CI/bot (bluez.test.bot: 75, patchwork-bot+bluetooth: 36, BluezTestBot: 12, github-actions[bot]: 8, syzbot: 4, kernel test robot: 3, Sasha Levin: 3, bugzilla-daemon: 2, patchwork-bot+netdevbpf: 1).
Summary
During week 41 (5 - 11 October 2026) the linux-bluetooth mailing list carried 352 messages, 208 from contributors and 144 from CI and bots. There were 81 human-initiated threads: 52 kernel patch series, 27 BlueZ userspace series and 2 discussions or reports. 36 patches were applied via patchwork and 16 commits were pushed to bluez repositories. The most active contributor was Luiz Augusto von Dentz (Intel) with 40 messages. 8 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 |
|---|---|---|
| [BUG] Bluetooth: btintel_pcie: BE201 (8086:a876) dead after “Failed to get mac a… | Kanstantsin Haradzetski | 2 messages |
| [GIT PULL] bluetooth 2026-10-05 | Luiz Augusto von Dentz | 2 messages |
Series Revised This Week
Top Contributors (by message count)
| Contributor | Affiliation | Messages |
|---|---|---|
| Luiz Augusto von Dentz | Intel | 40 |
| Hitalo Souza | Independent | 24 |
| Kevin Dewald | Independent | 19 |
| Pauli Virtanen | Independent | 18 |
| Cheng Jiang | Qualcomm | 16 |
| Cen Zhang | Independent | 12 |
| Iaroslav Voitovych | Independent | 11 |
| Loic Poulain | Qualcomm | 10 |
| Andrei-Alexandru Bleortu | Independent | 5 |
| Chris Lu | MediaTek | 4 |
Merged to master (BlueZ & bluetooth-next)
Applied to bluetooth-next (kernel, via patchwork notifications)
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: Fix command skb lifetime during scan setup
- Bluetooth: ISO: Serialize concurrent connect calls
- Bluetooth: ISO: Reject concurrent BIS listener setup
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix mesh adv timeout units
- Bluetooth: hci_sock: Serialize dead-device detachment
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: fix mesh adv timeout units
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix advertising instances with Global Advertising
- Bluetooth: msft: Lock failed probe cleanup against feature readers
- Bluetooth: Add missing newline to bt_dev_{err,warn}_ratelimited()
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: Serialize devcoredump reset during device open
- Bluetooth: hci_core: Keep RCU protection through LTK filtering
- Bluetooth: ISO: Hold the listener during disconnect notification
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Reject quality report requests during unregister
- Bluetooth: 6LoWPAN: Use RCU-safe device list removal
- Bluetooth: L2CAP: Hold the listener while notifying child teardown
- Bluetooth: selftest: Pin module for selftest debugfs file operations
- Bluetooth: hci_sync: Protect IRK identity reads with RCU
- Bluetooth: hci_debugfs: Pin module for debugfs file operations
- Bluetooth: btmtk: fix skb double free on ISO padding failure
- Bluetooth: hci_vhci: Pin module for debugfs file operations
- Bluetooth: 6lowpan: Drain RCU readers on registration failure
- Bluetooth: 6lowpan: Pin module for 6lowpan_control debugfs file
- Bluetooth: btintel: Zero version data before parsing TLVs
- Bluetooth: btintel: Zero version data before parsing TLVs
- Bluetooth: btintel: load unlocker.sfi to allow unsigned firmware
Applied to BlueZ (via patchwork notifications)
- hfp-hf: Enhance HFP Hands-Free profile support
- doc/mgmt: Document Advertising setting as Global Advertising
- BAP transport Release and reacquire fixes
- transport: Preserve Release on late BAP ready
- emulator: Fix extended advertising report types
- sdp: Prevent integer underflow in string attribute length calculation
- a2dp: Fix crashes around pending SetConfiguration
- a2dp: Fix UAF after rejected SetConfiguration
- shared/mgmt: Fix notify leak in mgmt_unregister()
- Ranging Profile and Ranging Service PTS fixes
- Add Role property to org.bluez.Bearer.LE1
Pushed to bluez repositories
- doc/mgmt: Document Advertising setting as Global A…
- audio/hfp-hf: Add HFP HF server and SDP record
- sdp: Prevent integer underflow in string attribute…
- transport: Preserve Release on late BAP ready
- a2dp: Fix UAF after rejected SetConfiguration
- client: Handle system bus connection failures
- shared/mgmt: Fix notify leak in mgmt_unregister()
- tools/sco-tester: Add test closing the socket befo…
- Add cover art support
- shared/rap: Track RAS CCC state per connection
- org.bluez.Bearer: Add Role property
- emulator: Free hooks in btdev_destroy
- emulator: Add btdev_send_event
- test: functional: retry pairable when Busy
- unit: test-rap: disable optimization to speed up c…
- iso-tester: remove IO sources during teardown
Company Focus Areas
Independent Contributors
- Bluetooth: Fix SCO setup failures after an abandoned setup
- Add Role property to org.bluez.Bearer.LE1
- Add Role property to org.bluez.Bearer.LE1
- Bluetooth: Fix SCO setup failures after an abandoned setup
Intel
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix advertising instances with Global Advertising
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix advertising instances with Global Advertising
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix advertising instances with Global Advertising
- Bluetooth: MGMT: Fix advertising instances with Global Advertising
Qualcomm
- Ranging Profile and Ranging Service PTS fixes
- Bluetooth: hci_qca: Support QCA2066 on M.2 connector via pwrseq
- Bluetooth: hci_qca: Add M.2 Bluetooth device support using pwrseq
- Bluetooth: hci_qca: Embed bt_power in struct qca_serdev
