Bug 627343

Summary: husb: ctrl buffer too small error received for passthrough usb device, fixed upstream
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: David Mansfield <bugzilla>
Component: kvmAssignee: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Virtualization Bugs <virt-bugs>
Severity: medium Docs Contact:
Priority: low    
Version: 5.5CC: cward, juzhang, michen, mjenner, mkenneth, virt-maint, ykaul
Target Milestone: rcKeywords: OtherQA
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OS: Linux   
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Fixed In Version: kvm-83-208.el5 Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-01-13 23:37:19 UTC Type: ---
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upstream commit that fixes the problem none

Description David Mansfield 2010-08-25 18:22:24 UTC
Created attachment 441018 [details]
upstream commit that fixes the problem

Description of problem:

When attempting to use a passthrough USB device (configured via libvirt or directly via qemu-kvm command line) the vm fails to use the device, the error message below is printed to logs (or stderr of qemu)

husb: ctrl buffer too small (2597 > 2048)

NOTE: this has been fixed in upstream qemu, see attachment.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
kvm-83-164.el5_5.15

How reproducible:
always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Install a USB device which uses large control packets, e.g.
Bus 002 Device 004: ID 046d:0809 Logitech, Inc. Webcam Pro 9000

2. pass this to vm with "-usbdevice host:046d:0809" options
3. boot a rhel 5.5 guest

Actual results:
fails to open vm, messages in the vm show

usb 1-2: unable to read config index 0 descriptor/all
usb 1-2: can't read configurations, error -32


Expected results:
works.

Additional info:

I have not actually tested the attached patch fixes my particular problem yet, but I will and report back.

Comment 1 David Mansfield 2010-08-25 18:47:00 UTC
above patch has been confirmed to fix the problem.

Comment 8 juzhang 2010-12-01 04:47:57 UTC
Hi,David
 
   Would you please use fixed build(kvm-83-208.el5) to verify this bug?thanks in advance.

Best Regards,
Junyi

Comment 10 David Mansfield 2010-12-03 18:22:00 UTC
regarding the above comment#8 and the separate comment from cward:

I cannot test this anyway as the VM in question wasn't viable for other reasons than this bug, and it's gone.  As noted above, I did test the upstream patch and it was fine.

Comment 13 errata-xmlrpc 2011-01-13 23:37:19 UTC
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-0028.html