Re: [syzbot] [usb?] INFO: task hung in unbind_store

From: Michal Pecio

Date: Thu Aug 27 2026 - 05:08:27 EST


On Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:00:06 +0200, Michal Pecio wrote:
> And something is also wrong with those timeouts, because 20 times 5s
> should still be less than 143 s. I asked Syzbot to try 500ms instead,
> which ended up being over 3s in practice:
>
> [ 566.662036][ T6636] usb 4-1: sisusb_send_bulk_msg()
> [ 569.717341][ T6636] usb 4-1: sisusb_send_bulk_msg()
> [ 572.777761][ T6636] usb 4-1: sisusb_send_bulk_msg()
> [ 575.845365][ T6636] usb 4-1: sisusb_send_bulk_msg()
>
> Same on my system, but patch below reduces the timeout to 500ms.
>
> I have no idea what's happening here. Looks like a bug?
> Is it known that jiffies are totally unreliable like that?

Sorry for the noise, timeouts are 500ms as inteneded but the function
tries 6 times, which makes it 3 seconds.