USB HID: fix retry & reset logic

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>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
index 7c0fc11e972a..35a41e60f541 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-core.c
@@ -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, ... */