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David Laight committed 35773dac5f8
usb: xhci: Link TRB must not occur within a USB payload burst Section 4.11.7.1 of rev 1.0 of the xhci specification states that a link TRB can only occur at a boundary between underlying USB frames (512 bytes for high speed devices). If this isn't done the USB frames aren't formatted correctly and, for example, the USB3 ethernet ax88179_178a card will stop sending (while still receiving) when running a netperf tcp transmit test with (say) and 8k buffer. This should be a candidate for stable, the ax88179_178a driver defaults to gso and tso enabled so it passes a lot of fragmented skb to the USB stack. Notes from Sarah: Discussion: http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=138384509604981&w=2 This patch fixes a long-standing xHCI driver bug that was revealed by a change in 3.12 in the usb-net driver. Commit 638c5115a794981441246fa8fa5d95c1875af5ba "USBNET: support DMA SG" added support to use bulk endpoint scatter-gather (urb->sg). Only the USB ethernet drivers trigger this bug, because the mass storage driver sends sg list entries in page-sized chunks. This patch only fixes the issue for bulk endpoint scatter-gather. The problem will still occur for periodic endpoints, because hosts will interpret no-op transfers as a request to skip a service interval, which is not what we want. Luckily, the USB core isn't set up for scatter-gather on isochronous endpoints, and no USB drivers use scatter-gather for interrupt endpoints. Document this known limitation so that developers won't try to use urb->sg for interrupt endpoints until this issue is fixed. The more comprehensive fix would be to allow link TRBs in the middle of the endpoint ring and revert this patch, but that fix would touch too much code to be allowed in for stable. This patch should be backported to kernels as old as 3.12, that contain the commit 638c5115a794981441246fa8fa5d95c1875af5ba "USBNET: support DMA SG". Without this patch, the USB network device gets wedged, and stops sending packets. Mark Lord confirms this patch fixes the regression: http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=138487107625966&w=2 Signed-off-by: David Laight <david.laight@aculab.com> Signed-off-by: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@linux.intel.com> Tested-by: Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org