[RFC PATCH] Bluetooth: L2CAP: tolerate zero-ident LE credit indications

From: Kyle Pepper

Date: Mon Oct 12 2026 - 23:20:22 EST


A nonconforming ASHA peer sends identifier-zero credit indications
that are discarded, reducing usable transmit credits until audio stalls.

Tolerate only exact-size credit indications for a connected LE CoC.
Preserve the channel reference, lock and credit-overflow checks and do
not send a response with identifier zero. Other zero-ID commands and
BR/EDR signaling remain unchanged.

Core Vol 3 Part A section 4 forbids identifier zero. This is an
interoperability RFC requiring maintainer agreement, not a conformance
fix or a claim of automatic stream recovery.

Assisted-by: OpenCode:gpt-6.1-sol
Signed-off-by: Kyle Pepper <cochcoder@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Submission review notes (not part of the commit message):
Core specification forbids identifier zero. This is a narrow opcode
interoperability exception, not a conformance fix. N8 captures contain
zero-ID credit indications. Native malformed/overflow/teardown and
lockdep/KASAN coverage and exception policy remain review gates.

net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
index 49a998804..1a0868437 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/l2cap_core.c
@@ -5328,6 +5328,12 @@ static inline int l2cap_le_credits(struct l2cap_conn *conn,

l2cap_chan_lock(chan);

+ /* Tolerate identifier-zero credits only for a live LE CoC. */
+ if (!cmd->ident &&
+ (!credits || chan->state != BT_CONNECTED ||
+ chan->mode != L2CAP_MODE_LE_FLOWCTL))
+ goto unlock;
+
max_credits = LE_FLOWCTL_MAX_CREDITS - chan->tx_credits;
if (credits > max_credits) {
BT_ERR("LE credits overflow");
@@ -5923,11 +5929,21 @@ static inline void l2cap_le_sig_channel(struct l2cap_conn *conn,

BT_DBG("code 0x%2.2x len %d id 0x%2.2x", cmd->code, len, cmd->ident);

- if (len != skb->len || !cmd->ident) {
+ if (len != skb->len) {
BT_DBG("corrupted command");
goto drop;
}

+ if (!cmd->ident) {
+ if (cmd->code != L2CAP_LE_CREDITS ||
+ len != sizeof(struct l2cap_le_credits))
+ goto drop;
+
+ /* Credits have no response or identifier-matched transaction. */
+ l2cap_le_credits(conn, cmd, len, skb->data);
+ goto drop;
+ }
+
err = l2cap_le_sig_cmd(conn, cmd, len, skb->data);
if (err) {
struct l2cap_cmd_rej_unk rej;

base-commit: 964430c038967fd06643e866f68115664e1a1bd1