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USB HID: fix retry & reset logic

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The USB HID driver fails to reset its error-retry timeout when there
has been a long time interval between I/O errors with no successful URB
completions in the meantime.  As a result, the very next error would
trigger an immediate reset, even if it was a chance event occurring
long after the previous error.

More USB keyboards and mice than one might expect end up getting I/O
errors. Almost always this results from hardware problems of one sort of
another. For example, people attach the device to a USB extension cable,
which degrades the signal.  Or they simply have poor quality cables to
begin with. Or they use a KVM switch which doesn't handle USB messages
correctly. Etc...

There have been reports from several users in which these I/O
errors would occur more or less randomly, at intervals ranging from
seconds to minutes.  The error-handling code in hid-core.c was originally
meant for situations where a single outage would persist for a few hundred
ms (electromagnetic interference, for example).  It didn't work right when
these more sporadic errors occurred, because of a flaw in the logic
which this patch fixes.

This patch (as873) fixes that oversight.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Alan Stern 2007-03-20 19:03:31 +01:00 committed by Jiri Kosina
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commit 5e2a55f25d
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drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
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@ -554,6 +554,11 @@ static void hid_io_error(struct hid_device *hid)
if (usb_get_intfdata(usbhid->intf) == NULL)
goto done;
/* If it has been a while since the last error, we'll assume
* this a brand new error and reset the retry timeout. */
if (time_after(jiffies, usbhid->stop_retry + HZ/2))
usbhid->retry_delay = 0;
/* When an error occurs, retry at increasing intervals */
if (usbhid->retry_delay == 0) {
usbhid->retry_delay = 13; /* Then 26, 52, 104, 104, ... */