[PATCH 3/3] Bluetooth: btusb: Fix short read errors in btusb_qca_send_vendor_req()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Date: Mon Jul 27 2026 - 12:11:35 EST


If btusb_qca_send_vendor_req() gets a "short" read from a device, it
will accidentally treat that as a "real" read and populate the returned
value with some unknown and probably totally invalid data.

Fix this logic error up by calling usb_control_msg_recv() which
guarantees a "full" read happens, and then simplify the error checking
for when btusb_qca_send_vendor_req() is called.

Cc: stable <stable@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c | 30 +++++++++---------------------
1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
index 8f7ed469cac6..184e95c1625e 100644
--- a/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
+++ b/drivers/bluetooth/btusb.c
@@ -3424,28 +3424,16 @@ static const char *qca_get_fw_subdirectory(const struct qca_version *ver)
static int btusb_qca_send_vendor_req(struct usb_device *udev, u8 request,
void *data, u16 size)
{
- int pipe, err;
- u8 *buf;
-
- buf = kmalloc(size, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (!buf)
- return -ENOMEM;
+ int err;

/* Found some of USB hosts have IOT issues with ours so that we should
* not wait until HCI layer is ready.
*/
- pipe = usb_rcvctrlpipe(udev, 0);
- err = usb_control_msg(udev, pipe, request, USB_TYPE_VENDOR | USB_DIR_IN,
- 0, 0, buf, size, USB_CTRL_GET_TIMEOUT);
- if (err < 0) {
+ err = usb_control_msg_recv(udev, 0, request, USB_TYPE_VENDOR | USB_DIR_IN,
+ 0, 0, data, size, USB_CTRL_GET_TIMEOUT,
+ GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (err)
dev_err(&udev->dev, "Failed to access otp area (%d)", err);
- goto done;
- }
-
- memcpy(data, buf, size);
-
-done:
- kfree(buf);

return err;
}
@@ -3652,7 +3640,7 @@ static bool btusb_qca_need_patch(struct usb_device *udev)
struct qca_version ver;

if (btusb_qca_send_vendor_req(udev, QCA_GET_TARGET_VERSION, &ver,
- sizeof(ver)) < 0)
+ sizeof(ver)))
return false;
/* only low ROM versions need patches */
return !(le32_to_cpu(ver.rom_version) & ~0xffffU);
@@ -3670,7 +3658,7 @@ static int btusb_setup_qca(struct hci_dev *hdev)

err = btusb_qca_send_vendor_req(udev, QCA_GET_TARGET_VERSION, &ver,
sizeof(ver));
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err)
return err;

ver_rom = le32_to_cpu(ver.rom_version);
@@ -3693,7 +3681,7 @@ static int btusb_setup_qca(struct hci_dev *hdev)

err = btusb_qca_send_vendor_req(udev, QCA_CHECK_STATUS, &status,
sizeof(status));
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err)
return err;

if (!(status & QCA_PATCH_UPDATED)) {
@@ -3704,7 +3692,7 @@ static int btusb_setup_qca(struct hci_dev *hdev)

err = btusb_qca_send_vendor_req(udev, QCA_GET_TARGET_VERSION, &ver,
sizeof(ver));
- if (err < 0)
+ if (err)
return err;

btdata->qca_dump.fw_version = le32_to_cpu(ver.patch_version);

--
2.55.0