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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Ray Chi <raychi@google.com>
Cc: stern@rowland.harvard.edu, m.grzeschik@pengutronix.de,
	albertccwang@google.com, pumahsu@google.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch v5] usb: core: stop USB enumeration if too many retries
Date: Tue, 8 Nov 2022 16:46:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y2p52y7h2h0YCgXj@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20221107072754.3336357-1-raychi@google.com>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 03:27:54PM +0800, Ray Chi wrote:
> When a broken USB accessory connects to a USB host, usbcore might
> keep doing enumeration retries. If the host has a watchdog mechanism,
> the kernel panic will happen on the host.
> 
> This patch provides an attribute early_stop to limit the numbers of retries
> for each port of a hub. If a port was marked with early_stop attribute,
> unsuccessful connection attempts will fail quickly. In addition, if an
> early_stop port has failed to initialize, it will ignore all future
> connection events until early_stop attribute is clear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ray Chi <raychi@google.com>
> ---

Much nicer, thanks for sticking with this!  I'll go queue it up now

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2022-11-08 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-07  7:27 [Patch v5] usb: core: stop USB enumeration if too many retries Ray Chi
2022-11-07 15:05 ` Alan Stern
2022-11-08 15:46 ` Greg KH [this message]

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