[4.2.y-ckt stable] Patch "usb: retry reset if a device times out" has been added to the 4.2.y-ckt tree

Kamal Mostafa kamal at canonical.com
Wed Mar 30 23:50:39 UTC 2016


This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    usb: retry reset if a device times out

to the linux-4.2.y-queue branch of the 4.2.y-ckt extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

    http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git/ubuntu/linux.git/log/?h=linux-4.2.y-queue

This patch is scheduled to be released in version 4.2.8-ckt7.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 4.2.y-ckt tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Kamal

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>From f710f6440495a0021ad989e2ab2fd8d773d57f43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2016 11:33:18 +0100
Subject: usb: retry reset if a device times out

commit 264904ccc33c604d4b3141bbd33808152dfac45b upstream.

Some devices I got show an inability to operate right after
power on if they are already connected. They are beyond recovery
if the descriptors are requested multiple times. So in case of
a timeout we rather bail early and reset again. But it must be
done only on the first loop lest we get into a reset/time out
spiral that can be overcome with a retry.

This patch is a rework of a patch that fell through the cracks.
http://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-usb/msg103263.html

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum at suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index 252807d..62ea2cd 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -4392,7 +4392,13 @@ hub_port_init (struct usb_hub *hub, struct usb_device *udev, int port1,
 						r = -EPROTO;
 					break;
 				}
-				if (r == 0)
+				/*
+				 * Some devices time out if they are powered on
+				 * when already connected. They need a second
+				 * reset. But only on the first attempt,
+				 * lest we get into a time out/reset loop
+				 */
+				if (r == 0  || (r == -ETIMEDOUT && j == 0))
 					break;
 			}
 			udev->descriptor.bMaxPacketSize0 =
--
2.7.4





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