[PATCH 2/6] Bluetooth: coredump: Allow drivers to pad dump header to fixed size

From: Zijun Hu

Date: Thu Jul 09 2026 - 02:15:22 EST


To let a driver easily separate header and data in the generated
coredump, allow a vendor driver to pad its header to a fixed size by:
- exposing MAX_HCI_DEVCD_HDR_SIZE as the max header size
- exposing HCI_DEVCD_HDR_END as the header-ending marker

Signed-off-by: Zijun Hu <zijun.hu@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
include/net/bluetooth/coredump.h | 4 ++++
net/bluetooth/coredump.c | 7 ++-----
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/net/bluetooth/coredump.h b/include/net/bluetooth/coredump.h
index ab85a6adfffd..b668277bdb76 100644
--- a/include/net/bluetooth/coredump.h
+++ b/include/net/bluetooth/coredump.h
@@ -8,6 +8,10 @@

#define DEVCOREDUMP_TIMEOUT msecs_to_jiffies(10000) /* 10 sec */

+/* total size shared by coredump and driver's dmp_hdr() */
+#define MAX_HCI_DEVCD_HDR_SIZE 512
+#define HCI_DEVCD_HDR_END "--- Start dump ---\n"
+
typedef void (*coredump_t)(struct hci_dev *hdev);
typedef void (*dmp_hdr_t)(struct hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb);
typedef void (*notify_change_t)(struct hci_dev *hdev, int state);
diff --git a/net/bluetooth/coredump.c b/net/bluetooth/coredump.c
index 3d4c2194ef43..c77bf511679d 100644
--- a/net/bluetooth/coredump.c
+++ b/net/bluetooth/coredump.c
@@ -34,8 +34,6 @@ struct hci_devcoredump_skb_pattern {
hci_dmp_cb(skb)->pkt_type, \
hci_devcd_state_name(hdev->dump.state))

-#define MAX_DEVCOREDUMP_HDR_SIZE 512 /* bytes */
-
static int hci_devcd_update_hdr_state(char *buf, size_t size, int state)
{
int len = 0;
@@ -63,7 +61,6 @@ static int hci_devcd_update_state(struct hci_dev *hdev, int state)

static int hci_devcd_mkheader(struct hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb)
{
- char dump_start[] = "--- Start dump ---\n";
char hdr[80];
int hdr_len;

@@ -74,7 +71,7 @@ static int hci_devcd_mkheader(struct hci_dev *hdev, struct sk_buff *skb)
if (hdev->dump.dmp_hdr)
hdev->dump.dmp_hdr(hdev, skb);

- skb_put_data(skb, dump_start, strlen(dump_start));
+ skb_put_data(skb, HCI_DEVCD_HDR_END, strlen(HCI_DEVCD_HDR_END));

return skb->len;
}
@@ -154,7 +151,7 @@ static int hci_devcd_prepare(struct hci_dev *hdev, u32 dump_size)
int dump_hdr_size;
int err = 0;

- skb = alloc_skb(MAX_DEVCOREDUMP_HDR_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
+ skb = alloc_skb(MAX_HCI_DEVCD_HDR_SIZE, GFP_ATOMIC);
if (!skb)
return -ENOMEM;


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