linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: sony: fix freeze when inserting ghlive ps3/wii dongles

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Date:   Sat, 5 Jun 2021 08:43:30 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Pascal Giard <pascal.giard@...mtl.ca>
Cc:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        stable@...r.kernel.org,
        Daniel Nguyen <daniel.nguyen.1@....etsmtl.ca>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: sony: fix freeze when inserting ghlive ps3/wii
 dongles

On Fri, Jun 04, 2021 at 12:10:23PM -0400, Pascal Giard wrote:
> This commit fixes a freeze on insertion of a Guitar Hero Live PS3/WiiU
> USB dongle. Indeed, with the current implementation, inserting one of
> those USB dongles will lead to a hard freeze. I apologize for not
> catching this earlier, it didn't occur on my old laptop.
> 
> While the issue was isolated to memory alloc/free, I could not figure
> out why it causes a freeze. So this patch fixes this issue by
> simplifying memory allocation and usage.
> 
> We remind that for the dongle to work properly, a control URB needs to
> be sent periodically. We used to alloc/free the URB each time this URB
> needed to be sent.
> 
> With this patch, the memory for the URB is allocated on the probe, reused
> for as long as the dongle is plugged in, and freed once the dongle is
> unplugged.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Pascal Giard <pascal.giard@...mtl.ca>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-sony.c | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++---------------------
>  1 file changed, 49 insertions(+), 49 deletions(-)

<formletter>

This is not the correct way to submit patches for inclusion in the
stable kernel tree.  Please read:
    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html
for how to do this properly.

</formletter>