Re: Read by Group Type is denied when issued before Pairing is finsihed

Hi Konrad,

On Wed, Aug 23, 2017 at 10:38 PM, Konrad Zapalowicz
[off-list ref] wrote:

Hey,

I have stumbled upon a problem with one of the BLE devices that I have
on my desk. BlueZ (bluetoothctl) failed to discover the primary services
and the error returned by the Read by Group type request was
"Insufficient Authentication". It did work when using gatttool though.

I have tracked it down and realized that if calling the
bt_gatt_discover_all_primary_services is delayed until after the pairing
is finished then the primary services are discovered without any issues.

The simplified bt for bt_gatt_discover_all_primary_services is:

(gdb) bt
#0  discover_services
#1  bt_gatt_discover_primary_services
#2  bt_gatt_discover_all_primary_services
#3  exchange_mtu_cb

Now, what would be the best way of approaching this. Calling it could be
delayed with a timer but would it be an optimal solution - thoughts?

Sounds to me that the device is requiring authentication for primary
services which is not following the spec:

4.4.1 Discover All Primary Services
...
Note: The service declaration described in Section 3.1 specifies that the
service declaration is readable and requires no authentication or authorization,
therefore insufficient authentication or read not permitted errors
shall not occur.

Is this a device already on the market? Perhaps we should contact the
manufacturer since it seems to not comply to the spec when it comes to
discovery.

Delaying is never a nice thing since it affects all devices, but we
could perhaps attempt to pair if that happens, actually, we usually do
this for regular Read/Write procedures so in case there is an
authentication error we pair and try again which might work here as
well despite not following the spec.

Thanks,
K
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