Re: [regression] Since kernel 6.3.1 logitech unify receiver not working properly

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On Thu, 25 May 2023, Jiri Kosina wrote:

> > > > That bug is pre-existing (ie the problem was not introduced by that
> > > > commit), but who knows if the retry makes things worse (ie if it then
> > > > triggers on a retry, the response data will be the *previous* response).
> > > >
> > > > The whole "goto exit" games should be removed too, because we're in a
> > > > for-loop, and instead of "goto exit" it should just do "break".
> > > >
> > > > IOW, something like this might be worth testing.
> > > >
> > > > That said, while I think the code is buggy, I doubt this is the actual
> > > > cause of the problem people are reporting. But it would be lovely to
> > > > hear if the attached patch makes any difference, and I think this is
> > > > fixing a real - but unlikely - problem anyway.
> > 
> > FWIW, Linus, your patch is
> > Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > Feel free to submit it to us or to apply it directly if you prefer as
> > this is clearly a fix for a code path issue.
> 
> It would be nice to hear from the people who were able to reproduce the 
> issue whether this makes any observable difference in behavior though. I 
> don't currently think it would, as it fixes a potential NULL pointer 
> dereference, which is not what has been reported.
> 
> Has anyone of the affected people tried to bisect the issue?

Could anyone who is able to reproduce the issue please check whether 
reverting

	586e8fede7953b16 ("HID: logitech-hidpp: Retry commands when device is busy")

has any observable effect?

Thanks,

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs




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