Patch "xhci: give command abortion one more chance before killing xhci" has been added to the 4.2-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

xhci: give command abortion one more chance before killing xhci

to the 4.2-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
xhci-give-command-abortion-one-more-chance-before-killing-xhci.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.2 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Mathias Nyman <[email protected]>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 17:46:10 +0300
Subject: xhci: give command abortion one more chance before killing xhci

From: Mathias Nyman <[email protected]>

commit a6809ffd1687b3a8c192960e69add559b9d32649 upstream.

We want to give the command abortion an additional try to stop the command ring before we completely hose xhci.

---
 drivers/usb/host/xhci-ring.c |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

@@ -302,6 +302,15 @@ static int xhci_abort_cmd_ring(struct xh
 	ret = xhci_handshake(&xhci->op_regs->cmd_ring,
 			CMD_RING_RUNNING, 0, 5 * 1000 * 1000);
 	if (ret < 0) {
+		/* we are about to kill xhci, give it one more chance */
+		xhci_write_64(xhci, temp_64 | CMD_RING_ABORT,
+			      &xhci->op_regs->cmd_ring);
+		udelay(1000);
+		ret = xhci_handshake(&xhci->op_regs->cmd_ring,
+				     CMD_RING_RUNNING, 0, 3 * 1000 * 1000);
+		if (ret == 0)
+			return 0;
+
 		xhci_err(xhci, "Stopped the command ring failed, "
 				"maybe the host is dead\n");
 		xhci->xhc_state |= XHCI_STATE_DYING;

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.2/usb-xhci-exit-early-in-xhci_setup_device-if-we-re-halted-or-dying.patch queue-4.2/xhci-give-command-abortion-one-more-chance-before-killing-xhci.patch queue-4.2/usb-xhci-clear-xhci_state_dying-on-start.patch queue-4.2/xhci-move-xhci_pme_quirk-behind-ifdef-config_pm.patch queue-4.2/usb-xhci-add-support-for-urb_zero_packet-to-bulk-sg-transfers.patch queue-4.2/usb-xhci-stop-everything-on-the-first-call-to-xhci_stop.patch queue-4.2/xhci-init-command-timeout-timer-earlier-to-avoid-deleting-it-uninitialized.patch queue-4.2/usb-xhci-lock-mutex-on-xhci_stop.patch queue-4.2/xhci-change-xhci-1.0-only-restrictions-to-support-xhci-1.1.patch