Arch Linux

Experiencing the same issue. Have you found a solution?

Some more info that might help:

[phisch@tower:~]$ usbip list -r 192.168.0.101 (10-31 15:32)
Exportable USB devices
======================
- 192.168.0.101
1-1.2: Holtek Semiconductor, Inc. : unknown product (04d9:0169)
: /sys/devices/platform/soc/3f980000.usb/usb1/1-1/1-1.2
: (Defined at Interface level) (00/00/00)

[phisch@tower:~]$ sudo usbip attach -r 192.168.0.101 -b 1-1.2 (10-31 15:32)
libusbip: error: udev_device_get_sysattr_value failed
usbip: error: open vhci_driver
usbip: error: query
[phisch@tower:~][1]$ lsmod | grep vhci_hcd (10-31 15:32)
vhci_hcd 40960 0
usbip_core 28672 2 vhci_hcd,usbip_host
usbcore 208896 9 usbhid,snd_usb_audio,vhci_hcd,usbip_host,ehci_hcd,xhci_pci,snd_usbmidi_lib,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci
usb_common 16384 3 vhci_hcd,usbcore,usbip_core
[phisch@tower:~]$ lsmod | grep usbip (10-31 15:34)
usbip_host 28672 0
usbip_core 28672 2 vhci_hcd,usbip_host
usbcore 208896 9 usbhid,snd_usb_audio,vhci_hcd,usbip_host,ehci_hcd,xhci_pci,snd_usbmidi_lib,xhci_hcd,ehci_pci
usb_common 16384 3 vhci_hcd,usbcore,usbip_core
[phisch@tower:~]$ usbip version (10-31 15:34)
usbip (usbip-utils 2.0)
[phisch@tower:~]$ pacman -Q usbip (10-31 15:35)
usbip 4.13-1
[phisch@tower:~]$ pacman -Q linux (10-31 15:35)
linux 4.13.9-1

There is no workaround if I understand the problem correctly.
Due to this: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dff3565b8e1c0be6fc83ba47dcab45c149dcab5b#diff-1860d675dbf910a8f3f01825f849e7cf commit, USBIP_VHCI_DRV_NAME(/sys/class/platform/vhci_hcd) changed to USBIP_VHCI_DEVICE_NAME(/sys/bus/platform/devices/vhci_hcd.0)
So, update should resolve this problem.
I think we should just wait for maintainer to update it...

So, i was looking into the source code today and debugged the vhci_driver a little bit and found out that there is another error.
The platform controllers got renamed from vhci_hcd to vhci_hcd.[index], the current version handles this correctly, but someone messed up reading the status. The status file is located under /sys/devices/platform/vhci_hcd.0/status, but the code tries appending the vhci_hcd index to the status file: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/tools/usb/usbip/libsrc/vhci_driver.c#L118

I don't know if the status files where located in one directory and suffixed with that id in the past, but right now it isn't, so this is just wrong.

After patching this out, so it just loads the correct "status" file, usbip works for me again.

Not too familiar with usbip yet, but my tests have shown me some other issues with that software, for example it doesn't handle hibernate nicely, there are no options to auto-discover and attach/detach devices, no option to kick out already connected clients if a new client requests a usb device, massive problems when a system goes into hibernate or shuts down etc.

I really like the idea, so I will probably work myself into the code, think about some concepts to handle this a little more comfortable and extend it.