Re: [PATCH] usb: host: xhci: fix HALTED endpoint handling

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On Tue, 21 Jan 2014, Sarah Sharp wrote:

> Ah, I think I see what's happening.
> 
> The xHCI driver is not designed to execute transfers after a stall on a
> non-control endpoint until xhci_endpoint_reset is called and the driver
> fixes up the endpoint ring.  That will happen in usb_clear_halt().
> 
> I expect that if an URB is submitted to a stalled non-control endpoint
> before usb_clear_halt is called, the xHCI driver should see EP_HALTED is
> set and refuse to ring the doorbell in that case. Once usb_clear_halt
> calls endpoint_reset, the xHCI driver will clean up the endpoint ring.
> 
> The way the code was designed doesn't account for the device driver
> telling the endpoint to halt via a control transfer.  The xHC doesn't
> snoop that particular control transfer, so it allows the first URB to be
> submitted.  When that transfer stalls, the driver sets EP_HALTED.  Then
> the second URB hangs as I expect, because the xHCI driver is waiting for
> usb_clear_halt() to be called.
> 
> If it really matters that a driver be able to get an immediate -EPIPE
> response back from a device when the endpoint is halted, I can rip the
> code out of xhci_endpoint_reset() and make the driver manually clean up
> the ring at the time of the stall, like it does for control endpoints
> and babble/transfer/split TX errors.  If it doesn't matter, test #13
> should be changed to only submit one URB and get back an -EPIPE
> response.

In theory, errors caused by the device sending a STALL should be
handled just like other sorts of errors.  After the URB which got the
STALL has been given back, the HCD should automatically restart the
endpoint ring.  It should not wait for usb_clear_halt.

Alan Stern

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