From 94dffc431166d5ab67f49069dda3ab781224410b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Abdullah Al-Banna <abdu.albanna@proton.me>
Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2026 20:24:08 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] default to configuration 0 if the `bConfigurationValue` file
 is empty (#181)

Co-authored-by: Kevin Mehall <km@kevinmehall.net>
---
 src/platform/linux_usbfs/device.rs      | 27 ++++++++++++++++++++-----
 src/platform/linux_usbfs/enumeration.rs |  4 ++--
 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/platform/linux_usbfs/device.rs b/src/platform/linux_usbfs/device.rs
index f4edee4..6a48714 100644
--- a/src/platform/linux_usbfs/device.rs
+++ b/src/platform/linux_usbfs/device.rs
@@ -29,7 +29,10 @@ use super::{
 };
 
 #[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
-use super::SysfsPath;
+use super::{
+    enumeration::{SysfsError, SysfsErrorKind},
+    SysfsPath,
+};
 
 use crate::{
     bitset::EndpointBitSet,
@@ -140,10 +143,20 @@ impl LinuxDevice {
 
         #[cfg(not(target_os = "android"))]
         let active_config: u8 = if let Some(sysfs) = sysfs.as_ref() {
-            sysfs.read_attr("bConfigurationValue").map_err(|e| {
-                warn!("failed to read sysfs bConfigurationValue: {e}");
-                Error::new(ErrorKind::Other, "failed to read sysfs bConfigurationValue")
-            })?
+            match sysfs.read_attr("bConfigurationValue") {
+                Ok(v) => v,
+                // Linux returns an empty string when the device is unconfigured.
+                // We'll assume all parse errors are the empty string.
+                Err(SysfsError(_, SysfsErrorKind::Parse(_))) => 0,
+
+                Err(e) => {
+                    warn!("failed to read sysfs bConfigurationValue: {e}");
+                    return Err(Error::new(
+                        ErrorKind::Other,
+                        "failed to read sysfs bConfigurationValue",
+                    ));
+                }
+            }
         } else {
             guess_active_configuration(&fd, &descriptors)
         };
@@ -325,6 +338,10 @@ impl LinuxDevice {
                     self.active_config.store(v, Ordering::SeqCst);
                     return v;
                 }
+                Err(SysfsError(_, SysfsErrorKind::Parse(_))) => {
+                    self.active_config.store(0, Ordering::SeqCst);
+                    return 0;
+                }
                 Err(e) => {
                     error!("Failed to read sysfs bConfigurationValue: {e}, using cached value");
                 }
diff --git a/src/platform/linux_usbfs/enumeration.rs b/src/platform/linux_usbfs/enumeration.rs
index f5e63f0..eadc412 100644
--- a/src/platform/linux_usbfs/enumeration.rs
+++ b/src/platform/linux_usbfs/enumeration.rs
@@ -15,10 +15,10 @@ use crate::{BusInfo, DeviceInfo, Error, Speed, UsbControllerType};
 pub struct SysfsPath(pub(crate) PathBuf);
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
-pub struct SysfsError(PathBuf, SysfsErrorKind);
+pub struct SysfsError(pub(crate) PathBuf, pub(crate) SysfsErrorKind);
 
 #[derive(Debug)]
-enum SysfsErrorKind {
+pub(crate) enum SysfsErrorKind {
     Io(io::Error),
     Parse(String),
 }