diff --git a/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbBusDxe/UsbEnumer.c b/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbBusDxe/UsbEnumer.c index 8340b72de2..0aa896173d 100644 --- a/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbBusDxe/UsbEnumer.c +++ b/MdeModulePkg/Bus/Usb/UsbBusDxe/UsbEnumer.c @@ -814,11 +814,20 @@ UsbEnumerateNewDev ( return EFI_SUCCESS; ON_ERROR: - - if (Child != NULL) { - UsbFreeDevice (Child); - } - + // + // If reach here, it means the enumeration process on a given port is interrupted due to error. + // The s/w resources, including the assigned address(Address) and the allocated usb device data + // structure(Bus->Devices[Address]), will NOT be freed here. These resources will be freed when + // the device is unplugged from the port or DriverBindingStop() is invoked. + // + // This way is used to co-work with the lower layer EDKII UHCI/EHCI/XHCI host controller driver. + // It's mainly because to keep UEFI spec unchanged EDKII XHCI driver have to maintain a state machine + // to keep track of the mapping between actual address and request address. If the request address + // (Address) is freed here, the Address value will be used by next enumerated device. Then EDKII XHCI + // host controller driver will have wrong information, which will cause further transaction error. + // + // EDKII UHCI/EHCI doesn't get impacted as it's make sense to reserve s/w resource till it gets unplugged. + // return Status; }