Four faults in the Android feedback path, all of them silent.
Rumble stopped for the rest of the session if one vibrator call threw. The
poll thread called cancel() unguarded while every call around it was already
wrapped, so an unchecked throw — DeadSystemRuntimeException, or the
RuntimeException a dying service wraps a RemoteException in — unwound the
thread. `running` stayed true, so nothing noticed it was gone and nothing
restarted it. Guarding the two bare cancels is not enough on its own: the
binder calls that bind a vibrator can throw just the same, so the loop itself
now survives a failed render, and the same guard covers the hidout thread.
A rumble stop that was never written was treated as one that landed. The
DualSense capture disarmed its backstop timer *before* the write, on a queue
that discarded failed submits without saying so, so a dropped stop left the
motors running with nothing scheduled to try again — and a USB pad holds its
last level until told zero. Writes now report whether they were accepted, the
backstop is disarmed only once the stop is actually on its way, and the
backstop re-arms rather than giving up if its own write is refused.
A full write queue dropped lightbar colours, player-LED masks and trigger
effects. Its overflow rule was "drop the oldest", which is right for rumble —
re-sent continuously, so a lost frame returns milliseconds later — and wrong
for everything else, which the host sends once on change and never repeats.
Eviction is now driven by an explicit key from the caller rather than by
inspecting the bytes: rumble supersedes the pending rumble in place, and a
one-shot is discarded only if the queue holds nothing but one-shots. The key
cannot be recovered from the report itself, which is why this is not keyed by
report id — every DualSense output report carries the *same* id and differs
only in its valid_flag bytes, so an id-keyed rule would let a rumble
supersede a lightbar, which is this bug again by another route.
An unplug leaked the USB connection and the detach receiver. The link only
signalled the drop; neither capture released anything, so the interfaces
stayed claimed (the pad could not return to Android's own input stack) and a
re-plug overwrote the field holding the receiver, stranding one live for the
rest of the process. The captures now release the transport, stop() is safe
to call from the callback it arrives on — the reader thread must not join
itself — and a close is reported exactly once however many detectors see it.
A reader that could not queue a single request now reports itself down too,
instead of leaving the owner waiting on a capture that never streams.