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[Mathew Hodson <mathew.hodson@xxxxxxxxx>]

** Changed in: libusb (Ubuntu)
   Importance: Undecided => Medium

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Title:
  libusb occasionally hangs after suspend/resume

Status in libusb package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I'm trying to make g15daemon correctly recover after suspend/resume and found that it occasionally hangs after resume in libusb's  usb_urb_transfer() (linux.c) on this line:
  ioctl(dev->fd, IOCTL_USB_REAPURB, &context);

  After some research I found that linux kernel internally has lists of
  pending and completed requests. All requests - successful or not - are
  moved from pending list to completed list, no requests should be lost.
  But it looks like after suspend/resume some request may be lost (may
  be a kernel bug). It that case IOCTL_USB_REAPURB would hang forever
  since request it's waiting for will never appear on completed list.

  There is simple workaround. After preceding IOCTL_USB_DISCARDURB call
  our request is guaranteed to be completed, so there is no need to use
  blocking IOCTL_USB_DISCARDURB, we may use non-blocking
  IOCTL_USB_REAPURBNDELAY instead.

  I've attached patch with this workaround. It also fixes race condition
  existed in original code, which may cause corruption of stack.

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 15.04
  Package: libusb-0.1-4 2:0.1.12-25 [modified: lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libusb-0.1.so.4.4.4]
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.19.0-16.16-generic 3.19.3
  Uname: Linux 3.19.0-16-generic x86_64
  NonfreeKernelModules: fglrx
  ApportVersion: 2.17.2-0ubuntu1
  Architecture: amd64
  CurrentDesktop: KDE
  Date: Sun May 17 13:11:00 2015
  Dependencies:
   gcc-5-base 5.1~rc1-0ubuntu1
   libc6 2.21-0ubuntu4
   libgcc1 1:5.1~rc1-0ubuntu1
   multiarch-support 2.21-0ubuntu4
  SourcePackage: libusb
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to vivid on 2015-04-26 (21 days ago)

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