fix(l2cap): propagate send failures without replaying partial SDUs

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A native L2CAP error can currently be reported as a successful write: write() only checks < 0, while several writeFragment() paths return positive NimBLE errors. ENOMEM/EAGAIN also retry a consumed SDU, which can replay an already transmitted prefix.

Treat every nonzero fragment result as failure, stop submitting later fragments and request disconnect. Do not retry native send failures. Preserve accepted ESTALLED handling, free caller-owned mbufs on EBADDATA/EBUSY and append failures, and calculate the final fragment without forming an iterator past the end.

Validation:

• Six native tests compile the production channel source and pass, including AddressSanitizer/UBSan.
• Four regression cases fail against the unchanged master source: native errors, partial-send replay, early-error ownership and append failure.
• Success/fragmentation and accepted ESTALLED controls pass.

The native replacements model mbuf ownership and send results; they do not simulate RF or controller capacity. Credit-wait lifetime, concurrency and teardown are deliberately left for a separate follow-up. No HCI-backpressure or private IDF interface is introduced.

Native ownership was also checked against the actual ESP-IDF-shipped source, beyond the replacements: ble_l2cap_send forwards to ble_l2cap_coc_send. EBADDATA and EBUSY return before attaching the SDU; after assignment, continue_tx keeps ownership on ESTALLED, frees the chain on error, and may already have transmitted a prefix. Verified revisions:

• IDF 5.4.3: send ownership, continuation/free paths.
• IDF 5.5.1: send ownership, continuation/free paths.
• IDF 6.1: send ownership, continuation/free paths.

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📝 Walkthrough

Arrr, the L2CAP channel now makes one send attempt per fragment and disconnects when a fragment returns a nonzero result. A host-side test project and GitHub Actions workflow exercise the send paths, including sanitizer builds.

Changes: L2CAP send handling

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Fragment send and write handling src/NimBLEL2CAPChannel.cpp	Arrr, writeFragment submits each fragment once and handles append failures and selected send results. write disconnects when a fragment returns any nonzero result.
Native regression tests and CI tests/l2cap/CMakeLists.txt, tests/l2cap/README.md, tests/l2cap/SendErrorsTests.cpp, tests/l2cap/stubs/*, .github/workflows/l2cap-tests.yml	The host-side tests cover send errors, ownership, partial writes, append failures, successful fragmentation, and stalled sends. CMake registers six cases. The workflow runs the tests with default and sanitizer flags. The README lists test limits and build commands.

Priority: ➖ Normal

Estimated code review effort: 3 (Moderate) | ~20 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Sequence Diagram(s)

sequenceDiagram
  participant NimBLEL2CAPChannel
  participant os_mbuf
  participant ble_l2cap_send
  participant ble_l2cap_disconnect
  NimBLEL2CAPChannel->>os_mbuf: Append fragment
  os_mbuf-->>NimBLEL2CAPChannel: Append result
  NimBLEL2CAPChannel->>ble_l2cap_send: Submit fragment
  ble_l2cap_send-->>NimBLEL2CAPChannel: Return send result
  alt Fragment result is nonzero
    NimBLEL2CAPChannel->>ble_l2cap_disconnect: Disconnect channel
  else Fragment result is zero
    NimBLEL2CAPChannel-->>NimBLEL2CAPChannel: Continue write
  end

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• .github/workflows/l2cap-tests.yml
• src/NimBLEL2CAPChannel.cpp
• tests/l2cap/CMakeLists.txt
• tests/l2cap/README.md
• tests/l2cap/SendErrorsTests.cpp
• tests/l2cap/stubs/Host.h
• tests/l2cap/stubs/host/ble_gap.h
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What changed in this PR

Fixes L2CAP write failure handling to avoid reporting success or replaying partially transmitted data.

Changes:

• Aborts failed writes and requests disconnect without retrying native send errors.
• Corrects buffer cleanup and final-fragment bounds while preserving accepted stalled sends.
• Adds six native regression tests and sanitizer-enabled CI.

File	Description
tests/​l2cap/​stubs/​syscfg/​syscfg.h	Provides test configuration shim.
tests/​l2cap/​stubs/​os/​os_mbuf.h	Provides buffer API shim.
tests/​l2cap/​stubs/​host/​ble_l2cap.h	Provides L2CAP API shim.
tests/​l2cap/​stubs/​host/​ble_gap.h	Provides GAP API shim.
tests/​l2cap/​stubs/​Host.h	Models native send results and buffer ownership.
tests/​l2cap/​SendErrorsTests.cpp	Tests failures, cleanup, fragmentation, and stalled sends.
tests/​l2cap/​README.md	Documents test scope and commands.
tests/​l2cap/​CMakeLists.txt	Builds and registers native tests.
src/​NimBLEL2CAPChannel.cpp	Fixes error propagation, cleanup, and fragmentation.
.github/​workflows/​l2cap-tests.yml	Runs standard and sanitizer test configurations.

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