Re: [Patch v5] usb: core: stop USB enumeration if too many retries

[Greg KH]

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@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

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

greg k-h