The hid-sony driver has custom DS4 connect/disconnect logic for the
DS4 dongle, which is a USB dongle acting as a proxy to Bluetooth
connected DS4.
The connect/disconnect logic works fine generally, however not in
conjunction with Steam. Steam implements its own DS4 driver using
hidraw. Both hid-sony and Steam are issuing their own HID requests
and are racing each other during DS4 dongle connect/disconnect
resulting in a kernel crash in hid-sony.
The problem is that upon a DS4 connect to the dongle, hid-sony kicks
of 'ds4_get_calibration_data' from within its dongle hotplug code.
The calibration code issues raw HID feature report for reportID 0x02.
When Steam is running, it issues a feature report for reportID 0x12
typically just prior to hid-sony requesting feature reportID 0x02.
The result is that 'ds4_get_calibration_data' receives the data Steam
requested as that's the HID report returing first. Currently this
results in it processing invalid data, which ultimately results in a
divide by zero upon a future 'dualshock4_parse_report'.
The solution for now is to check within 'ds4_get_calibration_data' to
check if we received data for the feature report we issued and if not
retry.
Please consider to add this patch to Ubuntu LTS kernels.
The hid-sony driver has custom DS4 connect/disconnect logic for the
DS4 dongle, which is a USB dongle acting as a proxy to Bluetooth
connected DS4.
The connect/disconnect logic works fine generally, however not in
conjunction with Steam. Steam implements its own DS4 driver using
hidraw. Both hid-sony and Steam are issuing their own HID requests
and are racing each other during DS4 dongle connect/disconnect
resulting in a kernel crash in hid-sony.
The problem is that upon a DS4 connect to the dongle, hid-sony kicks calibration_ data' from within its dongle hotplug code. calibration_ data' receives the data Steam parse_report' .
of 'ds4_get_
The calibration code issues raw HID feature report for reportID 0x02.
When Steam is running, it issues a feature report for reportID 0x12
typically just prior to hid-sony requesting feature reportID 0x02.
The result is that 'ds4_get_
requested as that's the HID report returing first. Currently this
results in it processing invalid data, which ultimately results in a
divide by zero upon a future 'dualshock4_
The solution for now is to check within 'ds4_get_ calibration_ data' to
check if we received data for the feature report we issued and if not
retry.
Please consider to add this patch to Ubuntu LTS kernels.
Commit: /github. com/torvalds/ linux/commit/ f5dc93b7875bcb8 be77baa792cc943 2aaf65365b
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