[Bug 1962349] Re: Bolt doesn't work with native USB4 hosts

[Mario Limonciello]

> bolt_0.9.1-2ubuntu0~20.04.1.debdiff Edit (453.5 KiB, text/plain)

I don't believe this needs any sponsoring; I already uploaded it to the
focal unapproved queue.  It needs SRU team to review it.

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Title:
  Bolt doesn't work with native USB4 hosts

Status in bolt package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in bolt source package in Focal:
  In Progress
Status in bolt source package in Impish:
  Fix Released
Status in bolt source package in Jammy:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * AMD Yellow Carp provides integrated USB4 host controllers
   * When plugging in a Thunderbolt3 or USB4 device, users are unable to authorize it using the GUI due to an error message: "parent not authorized, deferring"

  [Test Plan]

   * Plug in USB4 device or TBT3 to AMD Yellow Carp host
   * Ensure that PCI topology has populated
   * Observe that /sys/bus/thunderbolt/devices/DEVICE/authorized is "0"
   * Try to run `boltctl enroll $UUID`

  [Where problems could occur]

   * Intel USB4 or TBT3 hosts also use bolt.  They could have a problem with the new version of bolt.
   * This is very unlikely however since there is a through test suite, and up until now the entire industry has been using bolt on Intel controllers for a long time.
   * There haven't been any significant bugs reported upstream or in Ubuntu since 0.9.1 release.

  [Other Info]
   * This bug also occurs on Intel controllers from ICL, TGL or ALD, but in many cases they are automatically authorized to an iommu DMA policy.
   * It is fixed in bolt 0.9.1 or later release.
   * To solve the SRU, will backport 0.9.1 release from Impish.
   * I did look into backporting just the commit(s) for fixing this, but it's not a trivial backport.  Quoting the changelog (https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/bolt/bolt/-/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md): "Additionally the unique_id of said host controller changes with every boot, which breaks one of the fundamental assumptions in boltd".

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