This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled USB: Don't use EHCI port sempahore for USB 3.0 hubs. to the 3.8-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: usb-don-t-use-ehci-port-sempahore-for-usb-3.0-hubs.patch and it can be found in the queue-3.8 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Tue Mar 12 14:57:57 2013 From: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 7 Mar 2013 16:23:30 -0800 Subject: USB: Don't use EHCI port sempahore for USB 3.0 hubs. To: Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Message-ID: <20130308002330.GA13281@xanatos> From: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [This is upstream commit 0fe51aa5eee51db7c7ecd201d42a977ad79c58b6. It needs to be backported to kernels as old as 3.2, because it fixes the buggy commit 65bdac5effd15d6af619b3b7218627ef4d84ed6a "USB: Handle warm reset failure on empty port."] The EHCI host controller needs to prevent EHCI initialization when the UHCI or OHCI companion controller is in the middle of a port reset. It uses ehci_cf_port_reset_rwsem to do this. USB 3.0 hubs can't be under an EHCI host controller, so it makes no sense to down the semaphore for USB 3.0 hubs. It also makes the warm port reset code more complex. Don't down ehci_cf_port_reset_rwsem for USB 3.0 hubs. Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/usb/core/hub.c | 15 +++++++-------- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c @@ -2661,17 +2661,16 @@ static int hub_port_reset(struct usb_hub { int i, status; - if (!warm) { - /* Block EHCI CF initialization during the port reset. - * Some companion controllers don't like it when they mix. - */ - down_read(&ehci_cf_port_reset_rwsem); - } else { - if (!hub_is_superspeed(hub->hdev)) { + if (!hub_is_superspeed(hub->hdev)) { + if (warm) { dev_err(hub->intfdev, "only USB3 hub support " "warm reset\n"); return -EINVAL; } + /* Block EHCI CF initialization during the port reset. + * Some companion controllers don't like it when they mix. + */ + down_read(&ehci_cf_port_reset_rwsem); } /* Reset the port */ @@ -2709,7 +2708,7 @@ static int hub_port_reset(struct usb_hub port1); done: - if (!warm) + if (!hub_is_superspeed(hub->hdev)) up_read(&ehci_cf_port_reset_rwsem); return status; Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from sarah.a.sharp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are queue-3.8/usb-don-t-use-ehci-port-sempahore-for-usb-3.0-hubs.patch queue-3.8/usb-rip-out-recursive-call-on-warm-port-reset.patch queue-3.8/usb-prepare-for-refactoring-by-adding-extra-udev-checks.patch queue-3.8/usb-fix-connected-device-switch-to-inactive-state.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html