Re: [BlueZ PATCH v1] shared/gatt-client:Ignore orphaned characteristics

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Hi Alain,

>>> The gatt discovery proceedure simplification to discover all
>>> characteristics at once has exposed a device side issue where some
>>> device implementation reports orphaned characteristics.  While this
>>> technically shouldn't be allowed, some instances of this were observed
>>> (namely on some Android phones).
>>> 
>>> The fix is to simply skip over orphaned characteristics and continue
>>> with everything else that is valid.
>>> 
>>> This has been tested as part of the Android CTS tests against an
>>> affected platform and was confirmed to have worked around the issue.
>>> ---
>>> 
>>> src/shared/gatt-client.c | 5 ++++-
>>> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>> 
>>> diff --git a/src/shared/gatt-client.c b/src/shared/gatt-client.c
>>> index 963ad619f..d604c77a3 100644
>>> --- a/src/shared/gatt-client.c
>>> +++ b/src/shared/gatt-client.c
>>> @@ -632,7 +632,10 @@ static bool discover_descs(struct discovery_op *op, bool *discovering)
>>>                      util_debug(client->debug_callback, client->debug_data,
>>>                              "Failed to insert characteristic at 0x%04x",
>>>                              chrc_data->value_handle);
>>> -                     goto failed;
>>> +
>>> +                     /* Skip over invalid characteristic */
>>> +                     free(chrc_data);
>>> +                     continue;
>>>              }
>> 
>> should we add a warning here?
> Is there a good way other than the util_debug mechanism to write  a warning?

you could just use btd_warn() here. If this gets too noisy, we either remove it later or we introduce a btd_warn_ratelimited() or btd_warn_once().

Regards

Marcel




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