patch "USB: yurex: Don't retry on unexpected errors" added to usb-linus

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

USB: yurex: Don't retry on unexpected errors

to my usb git tree which can be found at
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb.git
in the usb-linus branch.

The patch will show up in the next release of the linux-next tree (usually sometime within the next 24 hours during the week.)

The patch will hopefully also be merged in Linus's tree for the next -rc kernel release.

If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.

From 32a0721c6620b77504916dac0cea8ad497c4878a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Alan Stern <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 12:47:23 -0400
Subject: USB: yurex: Don't retry on unexpected errors

According to Greg KH, it has been generally agreed that when a USB driver encounters an unknown error (or one it can't handle directly), it should just give up instead of going into a potentially infinite retry loop.

The three codes -EPROTO, -EILSEQ, and -ETIME fall into this category. They can be caused by bus errors such as packet loss or corruption, attempting to communicate with a disconnected device, or by malicious firmware. Nowadays the extent of packet loss or corruption is negligible, so it should be safe for a driver to give up whenever one of these errors occurs.

Although the yurex driver handles -EILSEQ errors in this way, it doesn't do the same for -EPROTO (as discovered by the syzbot fuzzer) or other unrecognized errors. This patch adjusts the driver so that it doesn't log an error message for -EPROTO or -ETIME, and it doesn't retry after any errors.

---
 drivers/usb/misc/yurex.c | 7 ++++---
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

index 6715a128e6c8..8d52d4336c29 100644
@@ -132,6 +132,7 @@ static void yurex_interrupt(struct urb *urb)
 	switch (status) {
 	case 0: /*success*/
 		break;
+	/* The device is terminated or messed up, give up */
 	case -EOVERFLOW:
 		dev_err(&dev->interface->dev,
 			"%s - overflow with length %d, actual length is %d\n",

@@ -140,12 +141,13 @@ static void yurex_interrupt(struct urb *urb)
 	case -ENOENT:
 	case -ESHUTDOWN:
 	case -EILSEQ:
-		/* The device is terminated, clean up */
+	case -EPROTO:
+	case -ETIME:
 		return;
 	default:
 		dev_err(&dev->interface->dev,
 			"%s - unknown status received: %d\n", __func__, status);
-		goto exit;
+		return;
 	}
 
 	/* handle received message */

@@ -177,7 +179,6 @@ static void yurex_interrupt(struct urb *urb)
 		break;
 	}
 
-exit:
 	retval = usb_submit_urb(dev->urb, GFP_ATOMIC);
 	if (retval) {
 		dev_err(&dev->interface->dev, "%s - usb_submit_urb failed: %d\n",

2.23.0