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Re: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 009/211] xhci: don't finish a TD if we get a short transfer event mid TD

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On Wed, 2016-01-06 at 17:05 +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Tue, 2016-01-05 at 11:41 -0800, Kamal Mostafa wrote:
> > 4.2.8-ckt1 -stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.
> > 
> > ------------------
> > 
> > From: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
> > 
> > commit e210c422b6fdd2dc123bedc588f399aefd8bf9de upstream.
> > 
> > If the difference is big enough between the bytes asked and received
> > in a bulk transfer we can get a short transfer event pointing to a TRB in
> > the middle of the TD. We don't want to handle the TD yet as we will anyway
> > receive a new event for the last TRB in the TD.
> > 
> > Hold off from finishing the TD and removing it from the list until we
> > receive an event for the last TRB in the TD
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@linux.intel.com>
> > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
> > [ kamal: backport to 4.2-stable: context ]
> > Signed-off-by: Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com>
> [...]
> 
> This causes regressions (see https://bugs.debian.org/808602 and
> https://bugs.debian.org/808953 ) so please hold off until there's a
> complete fix upstream.

Thanks for the heads-up, Ben.  I'll defer it for 4.2-stable.

I'm thinking that it should also be reverted from the stable kernels
that already carry it (3.2, 3.13, 3.16, 3.19), unless that complete
upstream fix is really imminent.  Is it?

 -Kamal

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[PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 009/211] xhci: don't finish a TD if we get a short transfer event mid TD Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> - 2016-01-05 20:50 +0100
  Re: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 009/211] xhci: don't finish a TD if we get a  short transfer event mid TD Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-06 18:10 +0100
    Re: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 009/211] xhci: don't finish a TD if we get a  short transfer event mid TD Kamal Mostafa <kamal@canonical.com> - 2016-01-06 21:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH 4.2.y-ckt 009/211] xhci: don't finish a TD if we get a  short transfer event mid TD Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> - 2016-01-07 04:00 +0100

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