Re: [PATCH v2 BlueZ] hid2hci: Fix udev rules for linux-4.14+

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 05:40:32PM +0200, Ville Syrjälä wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 05, 2018 at 08:06:21AM +0100, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 04, 2018 at 10:41:17PM +0200, Ville Syrjala wrote:
> > > From: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > Since commit 1455cf8dbfd0 ("driver core: emit uevents when
> > > device is bound to a driver") the kernel started emitting
> > > "bind" and "unbind" uevents which confuse the hid2hci
> > > udev rules.
> > > 
> > > The symptoms on an affected machine (Dell E5400 in my case)
> > > include bluetooth devices not appearing and udev hogging
> > > the cpu as it's busy processing a constant stream of these
> > > "bind"+"unbind" uevents.
> > 
> > What is causing a "stream" of bind and unbind events?  This only happens
> > when a device is attached to a driver or removed from a driver, which is
> > caused by something else happening.
> 
> Not sure if it's just due to this thing causing devices to
> appear/disappear during bind/unbind events or what.

Someone has to be telling the kernel to bind/unbind from a driver to
a device, it doesn't do it on its own.  Look at your other rules/scripts
for that.

Also note that the kernel has been doing this for over a year now (since
4.l4), what just happened in 4.19 to cause this to be an issue?

> > This should not be a normal
> > occurance, unless something odd is happening to your hardware?
> 
> It's not specific to my hardware. Lot's of people are affected.
> See eg. 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/systemd/+bug/1759836
> 
> Acutally looking through that bug it seems someone else noticed
> hid2hci failing lot in the logs. So maybe it's just that we already
> switched the mode during "add", and then we try to redo the same
> thing during "bind" which fails, and that then causes and unbind?

You have to manually unbind the device, the kernel does not do that.  So
perhaps you have a broken udev rule somewhere else that would do
something odd like unbind/bind?

I don't see this happening on my systems, but hey, I know better than to
run Ubuntu :)

thanks,

greg k-h