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authorFelipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com>2008-06-12 10:49:47 +0300
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>2008-07-21 15:16:26 -0700
commit38f3ad5e7463d4dd490a8081a5f3f9f2dec7ecd6 (patch)
tree2dd60da46d065e4df9e34fe031d13e38bfc22dff /drivers/usb
parent6deb270b5c60680ca9117bd545302ea6a58bad42 (diff)
usb: hub: add check for unsupported bus topology
We can't allow hubs on the 7th tier as they would allow devices on the 8th tier. Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/usb')
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/devices.c2
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/hcd.h2
-rw-r--r--drivers/usb/core/hub.c6
3 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
index a681d9b92bd..6ec38175a81 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/devices.c
@@ -61,8 +61,6 @@
#include "usb.h"
#include "hcd.h"
-#define MAX_TOPO_LEVEL 6
-
/* Define ALLOW_SERIAL_NUMBER if you want to see the serial number of devices */
#define ALLOW_SERIAL_NUMBER
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.h b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.h
index 50b8bb2d121..5b0b59b0d89 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hcd.h
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hcd.h
@@ -21,6 +21,8 @@
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
+#define MAX_TOPO_LEVEL 6
+
/* This file contains declarations of usbcore internals that are mostly
* used or exposed by Host Controller Drivers.
*/
diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
index e678ed8bd8c..3251120b414 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/hub.c
@@ -1051,6 +1051,12 @@ static int hub_probe(struct usb_interface *intf, const struct usb_device_id *id)
desc = intf->cur_altsetting;
hdev = interface_to_usbdev(intf);
+ if (hdev->level == MAX_TOPO_LEVEL) {
+ dev_err(&intf->dev, "Unsupported bus topology: "
+ "hub nested too deep\n");
+ return -E2BIG;
+ }
+
#ifdef CONFIG_USB_OTG_BLACKLIST_HUB
if (hdev->parent) {
dev_warn(&intf->dev, "ignoring external hub\n");