On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 08:39:19AM -0500, Justin Forbes wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 2:31 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > From: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > commit d143825baf15f204dac60acdf95e428182aa3374 upstream.
> >
> > The ROM load sometimes seems to return an unknown status
> > (RENESAS_ROM_STATUS_NO_RESULT) instead of success / fail.
> >
> > If the ROM load indeed failed this leads to failures when trying to
> > communicate with the controller later on.
> >
> > Attempt to load firmware using RAM load in those cases.
> >
> > Fixes: 2478be82de44 ("usb: renesas-xhci: Add ROM loader for uPD720201")
> > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Tested-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Reviewed-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210615153758.253572-1-mdf@xxxxxxxxxx
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
>
> After sending out 5.12.17 for testing, we had a user complain that all
> of their USB devices disappeared with the error:
>
> Jul 15 23:18:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load
> for renesas_usb_fw.mem failed with error -2
> Jul 15 23:18:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: request_firmware failed: -2
> Jul 15 23:18:53 kernel: xhci_hcd: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -2
>
> After first assuming that something was missing in the backport to
> 5.12, I had the user try 5.13.2, and then 5.14-rc1. Both of those
> failed in the same way, so it is not working in the current Linus tree
> either. Reverting this patch fixed the issue.
Can you send a revert for this so I can get that into Linus's tree and
then all stable releases as well?
thanks,
greg k-h
