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The hub sends hot-plug events to the host trough it's interrupt URB. The driver takes care of completing the URB and re-submitting it. Completion errors are handled in the hub_event() work, yet submission errors are ignored, rendering the device unresponsive. All further events are lost. It is fairly hard to find this issue in the wild, since you have to time the USB hot-plug event with the URB submission failure. For instance it could be the system running out of memory or some malfunction in the USB controller driver. Nevertheless, it's pretty reasonable to think it'll happen sometime. One can trigger this issue using eBPF's function override feature (see BCC's inject.py script). This patch adds a retry routine to the event of a submission error. The HUB driver will try to re-submit the URB once every second until it's successful or the HUB is disconnected. As some USB subsystems already take care of this issue, the implementation was inspired from usbhid/hid_core.c's. Signed-off-by: Nicolas Saenz Julienne <nsaenzjulienne@suse.de> Reviewed-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.com> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.