Re: r8152: data corruption in various scenarios

[Kai Heng Feng <kai.heng.feng@canonical.com>]

> On Jan 7, 2019, at 12:13, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:
> 
> On 2019-01-06 11:09 p.m., Kai Heng Feng wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jan 7, 2019, at 05:16, Mark Lord <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> On 2019-01-06 4:13 p.m., Mark Lord wrote:
>>>> On 2019-01-06 2:14 p.m., Kai Heng Feng wrote:>> On Jan 5, 2019, at 10:14 PM, Mark Lord
>>>> <mlord@pobox.com> wrote:
>>>> ..
>>>>>> There is even now a special hack in the upstream r8152.c to attempt to detect
>>>>>> a Dell TB16 dock and disable RX Aggregation in the driver to prevent such issues.
>>>>>> 
>>>>>> Well.. I have a WD15 dock, not a TB16, and that same hack also catches my dock
>>>>>> in its net:
>>>>>> 
>>>>>>  [5.794641] usb 4-1.2: Dell TB16 Dock, disable RX aggregation
>>>>> 
>>>>> The serial should be unique according to Dell.
>>>>> 
>>>>>> So one issue is that the code is not correctly identifying the dock,
>>>>>> and the WD15 is claimed to be immune from the r8152 issues.
>>>>> 
>>>>> The WD15 I tested didn't use that serial number though...
>>>> 
>>>> What info do you need from me about the WD15 so this can be corrected?
>>>> 
>>>>>> xhci_hcd 0000:39:00.0: ERROR Transfer event TRB DMA ptr not part of current TD ep_index 13
>>>>>> comp_code 1
>>>>> 
>>>>> This is probably an xHC bug. A similar issue is fixed by commit 9da5a1092b13
>>>>> ("xhci: Bad Ethernet performance plugged in ASM1042A host”). 
>>>>> 
>>>>>> I just got that exact message above, with the r8152 in my 1-day old WD15 dock,
>>>>>> with the TB16 "workaround" enabled in Linux kernel 4.20.0.
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is the xHC WD15 connected an ASMedia one?
>>>> 
>>>> I don't know.  I *think* it identifies as a DSL6340 (see below).
>>>> 
>>>> Here is lspci and lsusb:
>>>> 
>>>> $ lspci -vt
>>>> -[0000:00]-+-00.0  Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM Registers
>>>>          +-02.0  Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620
>>>>          +-04.0  Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem
>>>>          +-14.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller
>>>>          +-14.2  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem
>>>>          +-15.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0
>>>>          +-15.1  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1
>>>>          +-16.0  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1
>>>>          +-1c.0-[01-39]----00.0-[02-39]--+-00.0-[03]--
>>>>          |                               +-01.0-[04-38]--
>>>>          |                               \-02.0-[39]----00.0  Intel Corporation DSL6340 USB 3.1
>>>> Controller [Alpine Ridge]
>>>>          +-1c.4-[3a]----00.0  Qualcomm Atheros QCA6174 802.11ac Wireless Network Adapter
>>>>          +-1d.0-[3b]----00.0  Samsung Electronics Co Ltd Device a808
>>>>          +-1f.0  Intel Corporation Device 9d4e
>>>>          +-1f.2  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC
>>>>          +-1f.3  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio
>>>>          \-1f.4  Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus
>>> 
>>> 
>>> Mmm.. lspci -vt isn't as verbose as I thought, so here is plain lspci to fill in the blanks:
>>> 
>>> $ lspci
>>> 00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Xeon E3-1200 v6/7th Gen Core Processor Host Bridge/DRAM
>>> Registers (rev 08)
>>> 00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation UHD Graphics 620 (rev 07)
>>> 
>>> 00:04.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Skylake Processor Thermal Subsystem (rev 08)
>>> 
>>> 00:14.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP USB 3.0 xHCI Controller (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 00:14.2 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Thermal subsystem (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 00:15.0 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #0
>>> (rev 21)
>>> 00:15.1 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP Serial IO I2C Controller #1
>>> (rev 21)
>>> 00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP CSME HECI #1 (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port (rev f1)
>>> 
>>> 00:1c.4 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #5 (rev f1)
>>> 
>>> 00:1d.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PCI Express Root Port #9 (rev f1)
>>> 
>>> 00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Device 9d4e (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 00:1f.2 Memory controller: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP PMC (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 00:1f.3 Audio device: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP HD Audio (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 00:1f.4 SMBus: Intel Corporation Sunrise Point-LP SMBus (rev 21)
>>> 
>>> 01:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
>>> 
>>> 02:00.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
>>> 
>>> 02:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
>>> 
>>> 02:02.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation DSL6340 Thunderbolt 3 Bridge [Alpine Ridge 2C 2015]
>>> 
>>> 39:00.0 USB controller: Intel Corporation DSL6340 USB 3.1 Controller [Alpine Ridge]
>> 
>> So it’s not an ASMedia one.
>> 
>> Before digging further, please make sure the system firmware (BIOS), Thunderbolt controller NVM and WD15 firmware are all up-to-date.
> 
> Everything is completely up to date.

Do you happen to use a Dell system? We can do some test here.

Kai-Heng

> 
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