From: Dave Carey <carvsdriver@gmail.com>
To: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, oneukum@suse.com,
guanwentao@uniontech.com, Dave Carey <carvsdriver@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] USB: cdc-acm: start bulk-IN polling when ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL is set
Date: Fri, 15 May 2026 09:04:32 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260515130432.714861-1-carvsdriver@gmail.com> (raw)
The INGENIC 17EF:6161 touchscreen composite device has a ~55-second
watchdog that resets the USB device if the bulk-IN endpoint on the CDC
data interface goes unread. The existing ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL quirk keeps
the notification endpoint (ctrlurb / EP 0x82) polling continuously, but
that alone is insufficient: the firmware monitors bulk-IN activity, not
just notification-endpoint activity.
Add acm_submit_read_urbs() calls to the two ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL paths that
already restart the ctrlurb:
1. acm_probe(): start bulk reads at probe time alongside the ctrlurb,
so the watchdog is satisfied from first bind without requiring a
userspace process to open /dev/ttyACMn.
2. acm_port_shutdown(): restart bulk reads after port close alongside
the ctrlurb restart, so the watchdog keeps running when the last
TTY user closes the port.
acm_read_bulk_callback() already resubmits each URB unconditionally on
normal completion, so once submitted the reads remain active until an
explicit kill (disconnect, suspend). acm_submit_read_urb() is a no-op
for URBs that are already in flight (read_urbs_free bit clear), so the
existing acm_port_activate() call remains correct and races are avoided.
Tested on Lenovo Yoga Book 9 14IAH10 (83KJ): without this patch the
device resets every ~55 s when no TTY is open; with it the device
remains stable indefinitely.
Signed-off-by: Dave Carey <carvsdriver@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Dave Carey <carvsdriver@gmail.com>
---
This follows commit f58752ebcb35 ("USB: CDC-ACM: add INGENIC 17EF:6161
quirk for Yoga Book 9 14IAH10"), which added ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL to keep
the ctrlurb active. That commit addressed the notification-endpoint
watchdog (~20 s). This patch addresses a second watchdog that fires
when bulk-IN data goes unread for ~55 s.
This patch is based on top of Wentao Guan's pending fix
("USB: cdc-acm: fix misplaced quirk defines and BIT(9) collision") which
moves VENDOR_CLASS_DATA_IFACE and ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL from inside
acm_ctrl_msg() to cdc-acm.h and reassigns them to BIT(10)/BIT(11) to
avoid the NO_UNION_12 collision. The bulk-IN additions here are
independent of that renumbering and apply cleanly to either base, but
the combined tree is the correct target once Wentao's fix merges.
drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c | 10 ++++++++++
1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
diff --git a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
--- a/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/class/cdc-acm.c
@@ -797,6 +797,9 @@ static void acm_port_shutdown(struct tty_port *port)
"ctrl polling restart failed after port close\n");
/* port_shutdown() cleared DTR/RTS; restore them */
acm_set_control(acm, USB_CDC_CTRL_DTR | USB_CDC_CTRL_RTS);
+ if (acm_submit_read_urbs(acm, GFP_KERNEL))
+ dev_dbg(&acm->control->dev,
+ "read urb restart failed after port close\n");
}
}
@@ -1564,6 +1567,9 @@ static int acm_probe(struct usb_interface *intf,
if (usb_submit_urb(acm->ctrlurb, GFP_KERNEL))
dev_warn(&intf->dev,
"failed to start persistent ctrl polling\n");
+ if (acm_submit_read_urbs(acm, GFP_KERNEL))
+ dev_warn(&intf->dev,
+ "failed to start persistent bulk read polling\n");
}
return 0;
--
2.47.0
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2026-05-15 13:04 Dave Carey [this message]
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2026-05-15 14:19 [PATCH] USB: cdc-acm: start bulk-IN polling when ALWAYS_POLL_CTRL is set Dave Carey
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2026-05-15 5:58 ` Greg KH
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