On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 11:52:53PM +0300, Sergei Shtylyov wrote: > Hello. > > On 01/18/2013 10:48 PM, Greg KH wrote: > > >> Serialize usb-storage operations with usbfs and 'cat /proc/bus/usb/devices', > >> so that they cannot disturb storage by seemingly harmless control reads. > > >> This patch was adapted from 2.4 patches by Pete Zaitcev. The initial patch of > >> the series dates back to 2004 and it unfortunately wasn't applied to 2.6 in the > >> same form back then (it was applied in another form and immediately reverted). > >> Despite 8+ years passing from that moment, the vendors didn't stop producing > >> USB devices that require this kind of patch. Two recent examples are SanDisk > >> Cruzer Slice 8GB and Kingston DataTraveller 100 G2 32GB. In the latter case, > >> even the enumeration fails as the INQUIRY command normally takes 2.8 seconds to > >> finish, so 'udev' also comes into action with its control requests, with neither > >> completing normally. > > >> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > >> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > >> --- > >> This patch is atop of 'usb-linus' branch of Greg's tree. > >> It has been boot tested with non-buggy USB stick only. > > > I really want to see this tested on the hardware that it is supposed to > > fix the problem for, otherwise it's kind of pointless, right? > > Don't forget that the same code is working in 2.4 for several years. In mainline? Or some random vendor-specific kernel branch where we have no visiblity into? :) > It would be hard for me, I'm afraid, to arrange testing this on the > modern broken h/w in the near future as I'm being switched from > working with MontaVista to another company starting next week. Also, > we've already internally committed v1 of the patch as the fix for the > issue... Then that kind of implies that you have some way of testing it, otherwise why would you want to apply it to a kernel you have to send to people? :) Yes, I am being a pain, but for a change like this, I think it deserves it, sorry. greg k-h -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
