[PATCH v2 1/3] Bluetooth: btmtk: drop zero-length ISO packets from endpoint padding

Chris Lu chris.lu at mediatek.com
Thu Oct 15 01:14:48 PDT 2026


The ISO interrupt IN endpoint delivers a fixed-size transfer that holds
one HCI ISO packet and zero-fills the remainder. That padding belongs to
the transfer rather than to the stream, so it has to be dropped instead of
reported to the host.

btmtk_recv_isopkt() keeps parsing it: the zero bytes read as an ISO header
with handle 0 and a Data_Total_Length of zero, and each one is passed to
hci_recv_frame() as a complete frame. A single transfer yields a long run
of them, which is what fills the HCI log with malformed ISO packets, and
iso_recv() drops the SDU it is reassembling whenever handle 0 belongs to a
live CIS/BIS.

A zero Data_Total_Length carries no ISO Data Load, so such a packet is
never part of the stream. The padding runs to the end of the transfer, so
stop parsing once one is seen.

This was observed on MT7925, but btmtk_recv_isopkt() is shared by every
MediaTek USB controller that supports ISO data.

Fixes: ceac1cb0259d ("Bluetooth: btusb: mediatek: add ISO data transmission functions")
Co-developed-by: Hao Qin <hao.qin at mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Hao Qin <hao.qin at mediatek.com>
Co-developed-by: Wenlong Tian <ot_wenlong.tian at mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Wenlong Tian <ot_wenlong.tian at mediatek.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Lu <chris.lu at mediatek.com>
---
 drivers/bluetooth/btmtk.c | 13 +++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btmtk.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btmtk.c
index bdc85147b97f..869eb2176379 100644
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/btmtk.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btmtk.c
@@ -1201,6 +1201,19 @@ static int btmtk_recv_isopkt(struct hci_dev *hdev, void *buffer, int count)
 			/* Complete ISO header */
 			hci_skb_expect(skb) = __le16_to_cpu(dlen);
 
+			/* The interrupt endpoint zero-fills the remainder of
+			 * each transfer, and that padding parses as a header
+			 * with a zero Data_Total_Length. Such a packet carries
+			 * no ISO Data Load at all and is never emitted by the
+			 * controller, so stop parsing here rather than hand a
+			 * bogus handle 0 packet to the stack.
+			 */
+			if (!hci_skb_expect(skb)) {
+				kfree_skb(skb);
+				skb = NULL;
+				break;
+			}
+
 			if (skb_tailroom(skb) < hci_skb_expect(skb)) {
 				kfree_skb(skb);
 				skb = NULL;
-- 
2.45.2




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