[PATCH 6.6 279/567] usb: roles: get usb role switch from parent only for usb-b-connector

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2026-03-23T15:07:12Z

6.6-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>

commit 8345b1539faa49fcf9c9439c3cbd97dac6eca171 upstream.

usb_role_switch_is_parent() was walking up to the parent node and checking
for the "usb-role-switch" property regardless of the type of the passed
fwnode. This could cause unrelated device nodes to be probed as potential
role switch parent, leading to spurious matches and "-EPROBE_DEFER" being
returned infinitely.

Till now only Type-B connector node will have a parent node which may
present "usb-role-switch" property and register the role switch device.
For Type-C connector node, its parent node will always be a Type-C chip
device which will never register the role switch device. However, it may
still present a non-boolean "usb-role-switch = <&usb_controller>" property
for historical compatibility.

So restrict the helper to only operate on Type-B connector when attempting
to get the role switch from parent node.

Fixes: 6fadd72943b8 ("usb: roles: get usb-role-switch from parent")
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Xu Yang <xu.yang_2@nxp.com>
Tested-by: Arnaud Ferraris <arnaud.ferraris@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: Heikki Krogerus <heikki.krogerus@linux.intel.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309074313.2809867-3-xu.yang_2@nxp.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/usb/roles/class.c | 7 ++++++-
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/usb/roles/class.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/roles/class.c
@@ -110,9 +110,14 @@ static void *usb_role_switch_match(const
static struct usb_role_switch *
usb_role_switch_is_parent(struct fwnode_handle *fwnode)
{
- struct fwnode_handle *parent = fwnode_get_parent(fwnode);
+ struct fwnode_handle *parent;
struct device *dev;

+ if (!fwnode_device_is_compatible(fwnode, "usb-b-connector"))
+ return NULL;
+
+ parent = fwnode_get_parent(fwnode);
+
if (!fwnode_property_present(parent, "usb-role-switch")) {
fwnode_handle_put(parent);
return NULL;