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Alan Stern 251949ec9d usb-storage: Add quirk to defeat Kindle's automatic unload
commit 546aa0e4ea6ed81b6c51baeebc4364542fa3f3a7 upstream.

Matthias reports that the Amazon Kindle automatically removes its
emulated media if it doesn't receive another SCSI command within about
one second after a SYNCHRONIZE CACHE.  It does so even when the host
has sent a PREVENT MEDIUM REMOVAL command.  The reason for this
behavior isn't clear, although it's not hard to make some guesses.

At any rate, the results can be unexpected for anyone who tries to
access the Kindle in an unusual fashion, and in theory they can lead
to data loss (for example, if one file is closed and synchronized
while other files are still in the middle of being written).

To avoid such problems, this patch creates a new usb-storage quirks
flag telling the driver always to issue a REQUEST SENSE following a
SYNCHRONIZE CACHE command, and adds an unusual_devs entry for the
Kindle with the flag set.  This is sufficient to prevent the Kindle
from doing its automatic unload, without interfering with proper
operation.

Another possible way to deal with this would be to increase the
frequency of TEST UNIT READY polling that the kernel normally carries
out for removable-media storage devices.  However that would increase
the overall load on the system and it is not as reliable, because the
user can override the polling interval.  Changing the driver's
behavior is safer and has minimal overhead.

CC: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Reported-and-tested-by: Matthias Schwarzott <zzam@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210317190654.GA497856@rowland.harvard.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2021-03-24 11:26:40 +01:00
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acpi ACPICA: Fix exception code class checks 2021-03-04 10:26:14 +01:00
asm-generic vmlinux.lds.h: add DWARF v5 sections 2021-03-04 10:26:09 +01:00
clocksource
crypto crypto: x86 - Regularize glue function prototypes 2021-03-20 10:39:47 +01:00
drm iommu/vt-d: Move intel_iommu_gfx_mapped to Intel IOMMU header 2020-11-24 13:29:17 +01:00
dt-bindings
keys
kvm
linux usb-storage: Add quirk to defeat Kindle's automatic unload 2021-03-24 11:26:40 +01:00
math-emu
media media: rc: compile rc-cec.c into rc-core 2021-03-17 17:03:40 +01:00
misc
net net: sched: fix police ext initialization 2021-03-04 10:26:53 +01:00
pcmcia
ras
rdma RDMA/umem: Fix signature of stub ib_umem_find_best_pgsz() 2020-10-29 09:57:47 +01:00
scsi scsi: libiscsi: Fix NOP race condition 2020-12-02 08:49:49 +01:00
soc irqchip/eznps: Fix build error for !ARC700 builds 2020-09-17 13:47:47 +02:00
sound ALSA: hda: intel-nhlt: verify config type 2021-03-09 11:09:39 +01:00
target scsi: target: core: Add cmd length set before cmd complete 2021-03-17 17:03:45 +01:00
trace writeback: Drop I_DIRTY_TIME_EXPIRE 2021-01-30 13:54:11 +01:00
uapi uapi: nfnetlink_cthelper.h: fix userspace compilation error 2021-03-17 17:03:29 +01:00
vdso
video
xen Xen/gntdev: correct error checking in gntdev_map_grant_pages() 2021-02-23 15:02:26 +01:00