diff --git a/components/bt/host/nimble/nimble b/components/bt/host/nimble/nimble
index ad2be1f884..d00fee8248 160000
--- a/components/bt/host/nimble/nimble
+++ b/components/bt/host/nimble/nimble
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit ad2be1f884d6527db17718d4daca66b65eb281c6
+Subproject commit d00fee8248f22d433f531d74ebb29000def4f1d3
diff --git a/components/bt/porting/mem/bt_osi_mem.c b/components/bt/porting/mem/bt_osi_mem.c
index 69c656dd6a..b5173fba79 100644
--- a/components/bt/porting/mem/bt_osi_mem.c
+++ b/components/bt/porting/mem/bt_osi_mem.c
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 /*
- * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2021 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
+ * SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2015-2024 Espressif Systems (Shanghai) CO LTD
  *
  * SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
  */
@@ -7,18 +7,26 @@
 #include "esp_attr.h"
 #include "esp_heap_caps.h"
 #include "sdkconfig.h"
+#include "esp_log.h"
+#include <assert.h>
 
 IRAM_ATTR void *bt_osi_mem_malloc(size_t size)
 {
+    void *mem = NULL;
 #ifdef CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_MEM_ALLOC_MODE_INTERNAL
-    return heap_caps_malloc(size, MALLOC_CAP_INTERNAL|MALLOC_CAP_8BIT);
+    mem = heap_caps_malloc(size, MALLOC_CAP_INTERNAL|MALLOC_CAP_8BIT);
 #elif CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_MEM_ALLOC_MODE_EXTERNAL
-    return heap_caps_malloc(size, MALLOC_CAP_SPIRAM|MALLOC_CAP_8BIT);
+    mem =  heap_caps_malloc(size, MALLOC_CAP_SPIRAM|MALLOC_CAP_8BIT);
 #elif CONFIG_BT_NIMBLE_MEM_ALLOC_MODE_IRAM_8BIT
-    return heap_caps_malloc_prefer(size, 2, MALLOC_CAP_INTERNAL|MALLOC_CAP_IRAM_8BIT, MALLOC_CAP_INTERNAL|MALLOC_CAP_8BIT);
+    mem =  heap_caps_malloc_prefer(size, 2, MALLOC_CAP_INTERNAL|MALLOC_CAP_IRAM_8BIT, MALLOC_CAP_INTERNAL|MALLOC_CAP_8BIT);
 #else
-    return malloc(size);
+    mem =  malloc(size);
 #endif
+    if(!mem){
+       ESP_LOGI("ESP_LOG_INFO","malloc failed (size %zu)",size);
+       assert(mem != NULL);
+    }
+    return mem;
 }
 
 IRAM_ATTR void *bt_osi_mem_calloc(size_t n, size_t size)