Re: [PATCH 5.13 024/800] usb: renesas-xhci: Fix handling of unknown ROM state

From: Justin Forbes
Date: Mon Jul 19 2021 - 13:00:03 EST


On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 5:33 PM Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Justin,
>
> On Sat, Jul 17, 2021 at 08:39:19AM -0500, Justin Forbes wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 12, 2021 at 2:31 AM Greg Kroah-Hartman
> > <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > commit d143825baf15f204dac60acdf95e428182aa3374 upstream.
> > >
> > > The ROM load sometimes seems to return an unknown status
> > > (RENESAS_ROM_STATUS_NO_RESULT) instead of success / fail.
> > >
> > > If the ROM load indeed failed this leads to failures when trying to
> > > communicate with the controller later on.
> > >
> > > Attempt to load firmware using RAM load in those cases.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 2478be82de44 ("usb: renesas-xhci: Add ROM loader for uPD720201")
> > > Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > Cc: Mathias Nyman <mathias.nyman@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Cc: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Tested-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Reviewed-by: Vinod Koul <vkoul@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Signed-off-by: Moritz Fischer <mdf@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210615153758.253572-1-mdf@xxxxxxxxxx
> > > Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> >
> > After sending out 5.12.17 for testing, we had a user complain that all
> > of their USB devices disappeared with the error:
> >
> > Jul 15 23:18:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: Direct firmware load
> > for renesas_usb_fw.mem failed with error -2
> > Jul 15 23:18:53 kernel: xhci_hcd 0000:04:00.0: request_firmware failed: -2
> > Jul 15 23:18:53 kernel: xhci_hcd: probe of 0000:04:00.0 failed with error -2
>
> This looks like it fails finding the actual firmware file (ENOENT). Any
> chance you could give this a whirl on top of the original patch?
>

Sure. test kernel building now, will let you know when the user reports back.

Justin

> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c
> index 18c2bbddf080..cde8f6f1ec5d 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/xhci-pci.c
> @@ -379,7 +379,11 @@ static int xhci_pci_probe(struct pci_dev *dev, const struct pci_device_id *id)
> driver_data = (struct xhci_driver_data *)id->driver_data;
> if (driver_data && driver_data->quirks & XHCI_RENESAS_FW_QUIRK) {
> retval = renesas_xhci_check_request_fw(dev, id);
> - if (retval)
> + /*
> + * If firmware wasn't found there's still a chance this might work without
> + * loading firmware on some systems, so let's try at least.
> + */
> + if (retval && retval != -ENOENT)
> return retval;
> }
>
>
> Thanks,
> Moritz