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Date:   Tue, 8 Nov 2022 16:46:35 +0100
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Ray Chi <raychi@google.com>
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Subject: Re: [Patch v5] usb: core: stop USB enumeration if too many retries
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On Mon, Nov 07, 2022 at 03:27:54PM +0800, Ray Chi wrote:
> When a broken USB accessory connects to a USB host, usbcore might
> keep doing enumeration retries. If the host has a watchdog mechanism,
> the kernel panic will happen on the host.
> 
> This patch provides an attribute early_stop to limit the numbers of retries
> for each port of a hub. If a port was marked with early_stop attribute,
> unsuccessful connection attempts will fail quickly. In addition, if an
> early_stop port has failed to initialize, it will ignore all future
> connection events until early_stop attribute is clear.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ray Chi <raychi@google.com>
> ---

Much nicer, thanks for sticking with this!  I'll go queue it up now

greg k-h