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Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 10:54:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To: Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@...il.com>
cc: shuah@...nel.org, <valentina.manea.m@...il.com>,
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>,
<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
<stable@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] usbip: Fix error path of vhci_recv_ret_submit()
On Thu, 12 Dec 2019, Suwan Kim wrote:
> If a transaction error happens in vhci_recv_ret_submit(), event
> handler closes connection and changes port status to kick hub_event.
> Then hub tries to flush the endpoint URBs, but that causes infinite
> loop between usb_hub_flush_endpoint() and vhci_urb_dequeue() because
> "vhci_priv" in vhci_urb_dequeue() was already released by
> vhci_recv_ret_submit() before a transmission error occurred. Thus,
> vhci_urb_dequeue() terminates early and usb_hub_flush_endpoint()
> continuously calls vhci_urb_dequeue().
>
> The root cause of this issue is that vhci_recv_ret_submit()
> terminates early without giving back URB when transaction error
> occurs in vhci_recv_ret_submit(). That causes the error URB to still
> be linked at endpoint list without “vhci_priv".
>
> So, in the case of trasnaction error in vhci_recv_ret_submit(),
> unlink URB from the endpoint, insert proper error code in
> urb->status and give back URB.
>
> Reported-by: Marek Marczykowski-Górecki <marmarek@...isiblethingslab.com>
> Signed-off-by: Suwan Kim <suwan.kim027@...il.com>
> ---
> drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c | 13 +++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c
> index 33f8972ba842..dc26acad6baf 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/usbip/vhci_rx.c
> @@ -77,16 +77,21 @@ static void vhci_recv_ret_submit(struct vhci_device *vdev,
> usbip_pack_pdu(pdu, urb, USBIP_RET_SUBMIT, 0);
>
> /* recv transfer buffer */
> - if (usbip_recv_xbuff(ud, urb) < 0)
> - return;
> + if (usbip_recv_xbuff(ud, urb) < 0) {
> + urb->status = -EPIPE;
> + goto error;
> + }
>
> /* recv iso_packet_descriptor */
> - if (usbip_recv_iso(ud, urb) < 0)
> - return;
> + if (usbip_recv_iso(ud, urb) < 0) {
> + urb->status = -EPIPE;
> + goto error;
> + }
-EPIPE is used for STALL. The appropriate error code for transaction
error would be -EPROTO (or -EILSEQ or -ETIME, but people seem to be
settling on -EPROTO).
Alan Stern
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