Re: [PATCH v4] Bluetooth: btusb: Work around for spotty SCO quality

[Paul Menzel]

Dear Hilda,


Thank you for the patch. For the subject the *for* is superfluous:

Work around spotty SCO quality

Am 23.12.22 um 09:57 schrieb hildawu@xxxxxxxxxxx:
> From: Hilda Wu <hildawu@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> When streaming HFP, every few minutes a brief pause in audio can be
> heard on some platforms with Realtek Bluetooth. Linux based products
> may be encountered, but because of the different implementation of
> upper-level SCO services, the situation would not necessarily impact
> customer experience. But when the issue occurs, the system will see
> the SCO packet for unknown connection handle messages.
>
> Note: This issue affects (e)SCO only, does not affect ACLs.
> The duplicate data affected the invalid connection handle only
> occurs in Realtek BT.
> This is to filter out the duplicate packet for avoiding influence.
>
> The btmon trace give a better idea of what we're filtering.

give*s*

> The following excerpts are part of SCO packets in the HCI log:
>
> > SCO Data RX: Handle 11 flags 0x00 dlen 72      #23327 [hci0] 132.343418
>          8c a3 55 4f 8a d5 56 e9 35 56 37 8d 55 87 53 55  ..UO..V.5V7.U.SU
>          59 66 d5 57 1d b5 54 00 01 08 ad 00 00 e0 10 00  Yf.W..T.........
>          00 00 85 c6 d5 60 e9 b5 52 94 6d 54 e4 9b 55 b1  .....`..R.mT..U.
>          b6 d5 62 91 b5 57 84 6d 56 e4 5b 55 75 c6 d5 51  ..b..W.mV.[Uu..Q
>          2d b5 53 9a 6d 54 a5 1b                          -.S.mT..
> < SCO Data TX: Handle 11 flags 0x00 dlen 72      #23328 [hci0] 132.343600
>          01 c8 ad 00 00 aa db ba aa a9 72 b4 d9 5d af 14  ..........r..]..
>          53 0c 75 b0 a6 f3 8a 51 b3 54 17 b1 a6 d5 62 c5  S.u....Q.T....b.
>          d5 6b 35 29 8d c5 1c 56 4c 24 96 9b 8d b5 d7 1a  .k5)...VL$......
>          b2 8d bc da 3b 8c 46 ae 1d 4d a4 04 01 f8 ad 00  ....;.F..M......
>          00 3d ec bb a9 98 8b 28                          .=.....(
> > SCO Data RX: Handle 11 flags 0x00 dlen 72      #23329 [hci0] 132.353419
>          55 55 c6 d5 62 29 b5 57 b2 6d 54 00 01 38 ad 00  UU..b).W.mT..8..
>          00 e0 10 00 00 00 0b 00 d5 62 55 c6 57 b2 29 b5  .........bU.W.).
>          00 01 6d 54 00 00 38 ad 00 00 e0 10 00 00 00 92  ..mT..8.........
>          36 d5 5a ed b5 58 6c 6d 55 b3 1b 55 6b 26 d5 52  6.Z..XlmU..Uk&.R
>          d1 b5 54 23 6d 56 82 db                          ..T#mV..
> < SCO Data TX: Handle 11 flags 0x00 dlen 72      #23330 [hci0] 132.353581
>          6d 5b be db 89 34 66 e9 fa 99 a6 6e e5 6d 9f 1a  m[...4f....n.m..
>          1c 57 d2 66 92 63 98 99 a9 3b 8a 6c 3e 5b 5a 34  .W.f.c...;.l>[Z4
>          a4 96 e2 21 21 8c f8 88 0f 3d e0 52 48 85 18 00  ...!!....=.RH...
>          01 08 ad 00 00 0c eb ba a9 a8 28 ca 9a d0 3c 33  ..........(...<3
>          45 4a f9 90 fb ca 4b 39                          EJ....K9
> > SCO Data RX: Handle 2901 flags 0x0a dlen 54    #23331 [hci0] 132.373416
>          d5 48 a9 b5 56 aa 6d 56 d2 db 55 75 36 d5 56 2d  .H..V.mV..Uu6.V-
>          b5 57 5b 6d 54 00 0b 00 48 01 c8 ad 00 00 e0 10  .W[mT...H.......
>          00 00 00 5e c6 d5 56 e1 b5 56 43 6d 55 ca db 55  ...^..V..VCmU..U
>          7d c6 d5 5b 31 b5
>
> We handle is HCI SCO Data RX packets.
> The packet 23327 was a normal HCI SCO Data RX packet.
> The packet 23329 was the abnormal HCI SCO Data RX packet.
> The packet 23331 was the invalid connection handle affected by the
> packet 23329 abnormal HCI SCO Data RX packet.
>
> So we expect to filter is the packet 23329 SCO data RX packet case.
> As you can see the packet 23329, packet's connection handle (0x0B 00/11)
> and length (0x48/72) is normal.
> This btmon trace is SCO packets in USB alternate setting 3, payload
> length is 72 bytes that is consist of three SCO data packets.
> After our investigation, we found that the anomaly is due to the
> intermediate composition data.
> There is duplicate data in the intermediate composition data, but it
> affects packets combination. The system parses the next packet of the
> connection handle mistake, so the system see unknown connection
> handle messages.
>
> This commit can estimate and find out its abnormal rule to filter the
> duplicate packet out for avoiding influence.
> Check franments and filtering out the abnormal packet and then it will

fragments

> not affect the system parsing of the conenction handle subsequent.

connection

> This commit can filter out the invalid connection handle, avoid the

handle, and avoid …

> spotty SCO quality.
>
> Signed-off-by: Alex Lu <alex_lu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hilda Wu <hildawu@xxxxxxxxxxx>

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Kind regards,

Paul