When a broken USB accessory connects to a USB host, usbcore might
keep doing enumeration retries. If the host has a watchdog mechanism,
the kernel panic will happen on the host.
This patch provides an attribute early_stop to limit the numbers of retries
for each port of a hub. If a port was marked with early_stop attribute,
unsuccessful connection attempts will fail quickly. In addition, if an
early_stop port has failed to initialize, it will ignore all future
connection events until early_stop attribute is clear.
Signed-off-by: Ray Chi <raychi@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20221107072754.3336357-1-raychi@google.com
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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