* avoid interrupt storms we'll wait before retrying if we've got
         * several NAKs. If we didn't do this we'd retry directly from the
         * interrupt handler and could end up quickly getting another
-        * interrupt (another NAK), which we'd retry.
+        * interrupt (another NAK), which we'd retry. Note that we do not
+        * delay retries for IN parts of control requests, as those are expected
+        * to complete fairly quickly, and if we delay them we risk confusing
+        * the device and cause it issue STALL.
         *
         * Note that in DMA mode software only gets involved to re-send NAKed
         * transfers for split transactions, so we only need to apply this
                        qtd->error_count = 0;
                qtd->complete_split = 0;
                qtd->num_naks++;
-               qtd->qh->want_wait = qtd->num_naks >= DWC2_NAKS_BEFORE_DELAY;
+               qtd->qh->want_wait = qtd->num_naks >= DWC2_NAKS_BEFORE_DELAY &&
+                               !(chan->ep_type == USB_ENDPOINT_XFER_CONTROL &&
+                                 chan->ep_is_in);
                dwc2_halt_channel(hsotg, chan, qtd, DWC2_HC_XFER_NAK);
                goto handle_nak_done;
        }