[PATCH 2/3] USB: serial: metro-usb: fix unthrottle race

From: Johan Hovold

Date: Tue Jun 23 2026 - 11:22:53 EST


If the completion handler races with unthrottle() both functions may try
to resubmit the same interrupt-in urb, but at most one will succeed.

Fix the unthrottle logic using a throttle-requested flag so that only
one attempt to resubmit the urb is made to avoid logging an error.

Fixes: 43d186fe992d ("USB: serial: add metro-usb driver to the tree")
Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/usb/serial/metro-usb.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++--------
1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/serial/metro-usb.c b/drivers/usb/serial/metro-usb.c
index f42ad5dec35e..8458713277f4 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/serial/metro-usb.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/serial/metro-usb.c
@@ -36,6 +36,7 @@
struct metrousb_private {
spinlock_t lock;
int throttled;
+ int throttle_req;
unsigned long control_state;
};

@@ -143,7 +144,10 @@ static void metrousb_read_int_callback(struct urb *urb)

/* Set any port variables. */
spin_lock_irqsave(&metro_priv->lock, flags);
- throttled = metro_priv->throttled;
+ if (metro_priv->throttle_req) {
+ metro_priv->throttled = 1;
+ throttled = 1;
+ }
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&metro_priv->lock, flags);

if (throttled)
@@ -175,6 +179,7 @@ static int metrousb_open(struct tty_struct *tty, struct usb_serial_port *port)
spin_lock_irqsave(&metro_priv->lock, flags);
metro_priv->control_state = 0;
metro_priv->throttled = 0;
+ metro_priv->throttle_req = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&metro_priv->lock, flags);

/* Clear the urb pipe. */
@@ -269,7 +274,7 @@ static void metrousb_throttle(struct tty_struct *tty)

/* Set the private information for the port to stop reading data. */
spin_lock_irqsave(&metro_priv->lock, flags);
- metro_priv->throttled = 1;
+ metro_priv->throttle_req = 1;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&metro_priv->lock, flags);
}

@@ -321,19 +326,23 @@ static void metrousb_unthrottle(struct tty_struct *tty)
struct usb_serial_port *port = tty->driver_data;
struct metrousb_private *metro_priv = usb_get_serial_port_data(port);
unsigned long flags;
+ int throttled;
int result = 0;

/* Set the private information for the port to resume reading data. */
spin_lock_irqsave(&metro_priv->lock, flags);
+ throttled = metro_priv->throttled;
metro_priv->throttled = 0;
+ metro_priv->throttle_req = 0;
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&metro_priv->lock, flags);

- /* Submit the urb to read from the port. */
- result = usb_submit_urb(port->interrupt_in_urb, GFP_KERNEL);
- if (result)
- dev_err(&port->dev,
- "failed submitting interrupt in urb error code=%d\n",
- result);
+ if (throttled) {
+ result = usb_submit_urb(port->interrupt_in_urb, GFP_KERNEL);
+ if (result) {
+ dev_err(&port->dev, "failed to submit interrupt in urb: %d\n",
+ result);
+ }
+ }
}

static struct usb_serial_driver metrousb_device = {
--
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