From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.dentz@gmail.com>
To: linux-bluetooth@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH BlueZ v2 00/10] Replace the name2utf8 copies with str2utf8
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2026 14:30:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260820183037.2713973-1-luiz.dentz@gmail.com> (raw)
From: Luiz Augusto von Dentz <luiz.von.dentz@intel.com>
There are five near copies of the same helper turning a remote name into
a UTF-8 string, in monitor/att.c, profiles/audio/mcp.c,
profiles/gap/gas.c, src/eir.c and src/shared/ad.c, and none of them
agree with each other.
The copy in src/eir.c does not clamp the length before copying into a
fixed size stack buffer, and eir_parse() can hand it 253 bytes for a 250
byte buffer, so a remote device can overflow it with a long name in an
advertising report. That is fixed first and on its own so it can be
backported.
The rest replaces the copies with a single str2utf8() in src/shared/util
and drops around 120 lines.
Three things change behaviour and are worth a look:
- Most of the copies truncated the name at the first ill-formed
sequence, throwing the rest away, and the monitor replaced every
non-ASCII byte with a space, mangling the valid part of the name.
str2utf8() replaces only the ill-formed sequences with U+FFFD, so a
name is no longer cut short by one bad byte in the middle. The
unit/test-eir expectations are updated to match.
- strnlenutf8(), and with it strisutf8() and strtoutf8(), only checked
the shape of the bytes, so it accepted overlong encodings, UTF-16
surrogates and code points past U+10FFFF. Those reach D-Bus, which
does validate UTF-8 and rejects them. It now validates as per table
3-7 of the Unicode Standard.
- btd_device_set_name() cut the name at 248 bytes with strncpy(),
without regard for where the characters start and end, so a longer
name could be left with a partial sequence and be rejected by D-Bus.
It now truncates on a character boundary. It also loses the doubled
"device" in its name.
str2utf8() and strtoutf8() were checked against Python's UTF-8 decoder
over every one and two byte sequence, a sample of the three byte ones
and 200000 random inputs, with no mismatch.
Changes in v2:
- Add unit/test-eir tests for the longest local names eir_parse() can be
handed. Nothing covered a name anywhere near the size of the buffer it
is copied into, which is why the missing clamp went unnoticed. Run
against the code before the first patch, the 253 byte one dies with
"*** buffer overflow detected ***".
- Add a fix for ad_replace_name() reading past the name it copied, which
those new tests turned up. It clamps the copy to HCI_MAX_NAME_LENGTH
but then hands the unclamped length to strisutf8() and strtoutf8(), so
a 253 byte name has both reading 3 bytes past the same buffer.
- Clamp the name in eir_parse() to HCI_MAX_NAME_LENGTH rather than to
the size of the buffer, so that it agrees with ad_replace_name() and
the new tests can expect the same name out of both.
- Add the Fixes tag to the first patch.
Luiz Augusto von Dentz (10):
eir: Fix stack buffer overflow when parsing the remote name
shared/ad: Fix reading past the name that was copied
unit/test-eir: Add tests for the longest local names
shared/util: Make strnlenutf8 reject ill-formed sequences
shared/util: Add str2utf8
unit/test-util: Add str2utf8 tests
Replace the name2utf8 copies with str2utf8
device: Fix the name truncation splitting UTF-8 sequences
device: Rename btd_device_device_set_name to btd_device_set_name
unit/test-util: Cover strtoutf8 with the str2utf8 tests
monitor/att.c | 66 +++++++--------------
plugins/neard.c | 2 +-
plugins/sixaxis.c | 2 +-
profiles/audio/mcp.c | 24 +-------
profiles/gap/gas.c | 22 +------
src/adapter.c | 4 +-
src/device.c | 14 ++++-
src/device.h | 2 +-
src/eir.c | 20 +------
src/shared/ad.c | 20 +++----
src/shared/util.c | 136 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
src/shared/util.h | 7 +++
unit/test-eir.c | 69 +++++++++++++++++++++-
unit/test-util.c | 121 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
14 files changed, 356 insertions(+), 153 deletions(-)
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2.54.0
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2026-08-20 18:30 Luiz Augusto von Dentz [this message]
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 01/10] eir: Fix stack buffer overflow when parsing the remote name Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 20:04 ` Replace the name2utf8 copies with str2utf8 bluez.test.bot
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 02/10] shared/ad: Fix reading past the name that was copied Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 03/10] unit/test-eir: Add tests for the longest local names Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 04/10] shared/util: Make strnlenutf8 reject ill-formed sequences Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 05/10] shared/util: Add str2utf8 Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 06/10] unit/test-util: Add str2utf8 tests Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 07/10] Replace the name2utf8 copies with str2utf8 Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 08/10] device: Fix the name truncation splitting UTF-8 sequences Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 09/10] device: Rename btd_device_device_set_name to btd_device_set_name Luiz Augusto von Dentz
2026-08-20 18:30 ` [PATCH BlueZ v2 10/10] unit/test-util: Cover strtoutf8 with the str2utf8 tests Luiz Augusto von Dentz
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