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From: Michal Pecio <michal.pecio@gmail.com>
To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>,
	"Xuetao (kirin)" <xuetao09@huawei.com>,
	linux-usb@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	caiyadong@huawei.com, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] usb: core: Fix bandwidth for devices with invalid wBytesPerInterval
Date: Thu, 2 Apr 2026 17:03:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260402170336.7c95ac19.michal.pecio@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2026040221-reclusive-garland-6281@gregkh>

On Thu, 2 Apr 2026 16:09:51 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> I didn't realize this was on "real" devices, sorry.  I thought this
> was only a fuzzing thing.  So yes, fix up the broken descriptor after
> warning about it is the correct thing to do.

Such descriptors are not illegal per USB3 spec and they are seen in the
wild, at least on isochronous endpoints, and they were correct so far.

What's broken is that some particular device specifies less than its
driver actually submits (and presumably needs to submit for it to work).

Regards,
Michal

  reply	other threads:[~2026-04-02 15:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2026-04-02  2:14 [PATCH] usb: core: Fix bandwidth for devices with invalid wBytesPerInterval Tao Xue
2026-04-02  2:45 ` Alan Stern
2026-04-02  3:51 ` Greg KH
2026-04-02  6:59   ` Xuetao (kirin)
2026-04-02  7:10     ` Greg KH
2026-04-02  8:26       ` Xuetao (kirin)
2026-04-02 13:56     ` Alan Stern
2026-04-02 14:09       ` Greg KH
2026-04-02 15:03         ` Michal Pecio [this message]
2026-04-03  1:20         ` Xuetao (kirin)
2026-04-02 20:17       ` Michal Pecio
2026-04-02  9:44 ` Michal Pecio
2026-04-02 11:55   ` Xuetao (kirin)
2026-04-03  7:16     ` Michal Pecio

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