From: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
To: "M. Vefa Bicakci" <m.v.b@runbox.com>
Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org,
Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@google.com>,
stable@vger.kernel.org,
Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>,
syzkaller@googlegroups.com,
Shuah Khan <skhan@linuxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] usbcore/driver: Fix specific driver selection
Date: Fri, 18 Sep 2020 10:52:31 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200918145231.GA1130146@rowland.harvard.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <363eab9a-c32a-4c60-4d6b-14ae8d873c52@runbox.com>
On Fri, Sep 18, 2020 at 05:31:26PM +0300, M. Vefa Bicakci wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I noticed that applying this patch on its own to the kernel causes the following
> unexpected behaviour: As soon as the usbip_host module is loaded, all of the
> USB devices are re-probed() by their drivers, and this causes the USB devices
> connected to my system to be momentarily unavailable. This happens because
> *without* the third patch in this patch set, the match function for the usbip_host
> device driver unconditionally returns true.
>
> The third patch in this patch set [1] makes this unexpected behaviour go
> away, as it makes the usbip device driver's match function only match devices
> that were requested by user-space to be used with USB-IP.
>
> Is this something to be concerned about? I was thinking of people who might be
> using git-bisect, who might encounter this issue in an unexpected manner.
>
> As a potential solution, I can prepare another patch to revert commit
> 7a2f2974f2 ("usbip: Implement a match function to fix usbip") so that this
> unexpected behaviour will not be observed. This revert would be placed as
> the first patch in the patch series.
Yes, that sounds like a good solution.
Alan Stern
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-18 14:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-16 13:33 USB driver ID matching broken Andrey Konovalov
2020-09-16 14:15 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2020-09-16 14:39 ` Bastien Nocera
2020-09-16 15:58 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 9:59 ` [PATCH 1/2] usbcore/driver: Fix specific driver selection M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 9:59 ` [PATCH 2/2] usbip: Make the driver's match function specific M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 10:23 ` [PATCH 1/2] usbcore/driver: Fix specific driver selection Bastien Nocera
2020-09-17 10:39 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 10:49 ` Bastien Nocera
2020-09-17 14:41 ` [PATCH 1/3] " M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 14:41 ` [PATCH 2/3] usbcore/driver: Fix incorrect downcast M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 15:01 ` Alan Stern
2020-09-18 9:26 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 14:41 ` [PATCH 3/3] usbip: Make the driver's match function specific M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-17 15:21 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-18 9:26 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-18 14:31 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-18 15:49 ` Shuah Khan
2020-09-19 13:54 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-21 17:03 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-18 14:31 ` [PATCH 1/3] usbcore/driver: Fix specific driver selection M. Vefa Bicakci
2020-09-18 14:52 ` Alan Stern [this message]
2020-09-19 13:52 ` M. Vefa Bicakci
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