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The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.
The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (75 commits)
PM: merge device power-management source files
sysfs: add copyrights
kobject: update the copyrights
kset: add some kerneldoc to help describe what these strange things are
Driver core: rename ktype_edd and ktype_efivar
Driver core: rename ktype_driver
Driver core: rename ktype_device
Driver core: rename ktype_class
driver core: remove subsystem_init()
sysfs: move sysfs file poll implementation to sysfs_open_dirent
sysfs: implement sysfs_open_dirent
sysfs: move sysfs_dirent->s_children into sysfs_dirent->s_dir
sysfs: make sysfs_root a regular directory dirent
sysfs: open code sysfs_attach_dentry()
sysfs: make s_elem an anonymous union
sysfs: make bin attr open get active reference of parent too
sysfs: kill unnecessary NULL pointer check in sysfs_release()
sysfs: kill unnecessary sysfs_get() in open paths
sysfs: reposition sysfs_dirent->s_mode.
sysfs: kill sysfs_update_file()
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This patch (as981) removes the remaining nontrivial usages of
urb->status from usbcore.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as948) removes most of the references to urb->pipe from
the usbfs routines in devio.c. The one tricky aspect is in
snoop_urb(), which can be called before the URB is submitted and which
uses usb_urb_dir_in(). For this to work properly, the URB's direction
flag must be set manually in proc_do_submiturb().
The patch also fixes a minor bug; the wValue, wIndex, and wLength
fields were snooped in proc_do_submiturb() without conversion from
le16 to CPU-byte-ordering.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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struct cdev does not need the kobject name to be set, as it is never
used. This patch fixes up the few places it is set.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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the memory barrier is needed only with smp.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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o The "real" usb-devices export now a device node which can
populate /dev/bus/usb.
o The usb_device class is optional now and can be disabled in the
kernel config. Major/minor of the "real" devices and class devices
are the same.
o The environment of the usb-device event contains DEVNUM and BUSNUM to
help udev and get rid of the ugly udev rule we need for the class
devices.
o The usb-devices and usb-interfaces share the same bus, so I used
the new "struct device_type" to let these devices identify
themselves. This also removes the current logic of using a magic
platform-pointer.
The name of the device_type is also added to the environment
which makes it easier to distinguish the different kinds of devices
on the same subsystem.
It looks like this:
add@/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1
ACTION=add
DEVPATH=/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-1
SUBSYSTEM=usb
SEQNUM=1533
MAJOR=189
MINOR=131
DEVTYPE=usb_device
PRODUCT=46d/c03e/2000
TYPE=0/0/0
BUSNUM=002
DEVNUM=004
This udev rule works as a replacement for usb_device class devices:
SUBSYSTEM=="usb", ACTION=="add", ENV{DEVTYPE}=="usb_device", \
NAME="bus/usb/$env{BUSNUM}/$env{DEVNUM}", MODE="0644"
Updated patch, which needs the device_type patches in Greg's tree.
I also got a bugzilla assigned for this. :)
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=250659
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The driver core stopped using the rwsem a long time ago, yet the USB
core still grabbed the lock, thinking it protected something. This
patch removes that useless use.
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: linux-usb-devel <linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as862) fixes a couple of bugs in the way usbcore handles
intervals for interrupt URBs. usb_interrupt_msg (and usb_bulk_msg for
backward compatibility) don't set the interval correctly for
high-speed devices. proc_do_submiturb() doesn't set it correctly when
a bulk URB is submitted to an interrupt endpoint.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Some USB devices do have a configuration 0, in contravention of the
USB spec. Normally 0 is supposed to indicate that a device is
unconfigured.
While we can't change what the device is doing, we can change usbcore.
This patch (as852) allows usb_set_configuration() to accept a config
value of -1 as indicating that the device should be unconfigured. The
request actually sent to the device will still contain 0 as the value.
But even if the device does have a configuration 0, dev->actconfig
will be set to NULL and dev->state will be set to USB_STATE_ADDRESS.
Without some sort of special-case handling like this, there is no way
to unconfigure these non-compliant devices.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It should hopefully fix the list corruption bug on:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=214402
Add a missing INIT_LIST_HEAD()
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This moves the usb class devices that control the usbfs nodes to show up
in the proper place in the larger device tree.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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When sending CONTROL URB's using the usual CONTROL ioctl, logging works
fine, but when sending them via SUBMITURB, like VMWare does, the
control fields are not logged. This patch fixes that.
I didn't see any major changes to devio.c recently, so this patch should apply
cleanly to even the latest kernel. I can resubmit if it doesn't.
From: Chris Frey <cdfrey@foursquare.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Thanks to several earlier patches, usb_autosuspend_device() and
usb_autoresume_device() are never called with a second argument other
than 1. This patch (as819) removes the now-redundant argument.
It also consolidates some common code between those two routines,
putting it into a new subroutine called usb_autopm_do_device(). And
it includes a sizable kerneldoc update for the affected functions.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch adds missing class_device_create() error check,
and makes notifier return NOTIFY_BAD.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.
The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.
Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.
This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
And put the old one back at the end:
set_irq_regs(old_regs);
Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
- update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
- profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
+ update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
+ profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
(*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in
the input_dev struct.
(*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does
something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
pointer or not.
(*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
irq_handler_t.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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The problem with remembering a user space process by its pid is that it is
possible that the process will exit, pid wrap around will occur.
Converting to a struct pid avoid that problem, and paves the way for
implementing a pid namespace.
Also since usb is the only user of kill_proc_info_as_uid rename
kill_proc_info_as_uid to kill_pid_info_as_uid and have the new version take
a struct pid.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The patch removes unneeded casts for the following (void *) pointers:
- struct file: private
- struct urb: context
- struct usb_bus: hcpriv
- return value of kmalloc()
The patch also contains some whitespace cleanup in the relevant areas.
Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as741) makes the non-hub parts of usbcore actually use the
autosuspend facilities added by an earlier patch.
Devices opened through usbfs are autoresumed and then
autosuspended upon close.
Likewise for usb-skeleton.
Devices are autoresumed for usb_set_configuration.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Making structs const prevents accidental bugs and with the proper debug
options they're protected against corruption.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as711b) is a revised version of an earlier submission. It
modifies the usbfs code to detect when a device has been unregistered from
usbfs, even if the device is still connected. Although this can't happen
now, it will be able to happen after the upcoming changes to usb_generic.
Nobody objected to this patch when it was submitted before, so it should
be okay to apply this version. The revision is merely to take into
account the changes introduced by as723, which touches the same driver.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The usbfs code doesn't provide sufficient mutual exclusion among open,
release, and remove. Release vs. remove is okay because they both
acquire the device lock, but open is not exclusive with either one. All
three routines modify the udev->filelist linked list, so they must not
run concurrently.
Apparently someone gave this a minimum amount of thought in the past by
explicitly acquiring the BKL at the start of the usbdev_open routine.
Oddly enough, there's a comment pointing out that locking is unnecessary
because chrdev_open already has acquired the BKL.
But this ignores the point that the files in /proc/bus/usb/* are not
char device files; they are regular files and so they don't get any
special locking. Furthermore it's necessary to acquire the same lock in
the release and remove routines, which the code does not do.
Yet another problem arises because the same file_operations structure is
accessible through both the /proc/bus/usb/* and /dev/usb/usbdev* file
nodes. Even when one of them has been removed, it's still possible for
userspace to open the other. So simple locking around the individual
remove routines is insufficient; we need to lock the entire
usb_notify_remove_device notifier chain.
Rather than rely on the BKL, this patch (as723) introduces a new private
mutex for the purpose. Holding the BKL while invoking a notifier chain
doesn't seem like a good idea.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).
This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This reverts c182274ffe1277f4e7c564719a696a37cacf74ea commit because it
required a newer version of udev to work properly than what is currently
documented in Documentation/Changes.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch updates the USB core to save and pass the sending task secid when
sending signals upon AIO completion so that proper security checking can be
applied by security modules.
Signed-off-by: David Quigley <dpquigl@tycho.nsa.gov>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This reverts commit 786dc1d3d7333f269e17d742886eac2188a2d9cc.
As Al so eloquently points out, the patch is crap. The old code was fine,
the new code was bogus.
It never dereferenced a user pointer, the "->" operator was to an array
member, which gives the _address_ of the member (in user space), not an
actual dereference at all.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This moves the usb class devices that control the usbfs nodes to show up
in the proper place in the larger device tree.
No userspace changes is needed, this is compatible due to the symlinks
generated by the driver core.
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6617.
This function dereference a __user pointer.
Signed-off-by: Philippe Retornaz <couriousous@mandriva.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as699) adds usb_reset_composite_device(), a routine for
sending a USB port reset to a device with multiple interfaces owned by
different drivers. Drivers are notified about impending and completed
resets through two new methods in the usb_driver structure.
The patch modifieds the usbfs ioctl code to make it use the new routine
instead of usb_reset_device(). Follow-up patches will modify the hub,
usb-storage, and usbhid drivers so they can utilize this new API.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch increases an arbitrary limit on the size of
individual isochronous packets submitted via usbfs. The
limit is still arbitrary, but it's now large enough to
support the maximum packet size used by high-bandwidth
isochronous transfers.
Signed-off-by: Micah Dowty <micah@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch removes the artificial 4088-byte limit that usbfs
currently places on Control transfers. The USB spec does not
specify a strict limit on the size of an entire control transfer.
It does, however, state that the data stage "follows the same
protocol rules as bulk transfers." (USB 2, 8.5.3)
The level of support for large control transfers in real host
controllers varies, but it's important to support at least 4K
transfers. Windows enforces a maximum control transfer size
of 4K, so there exists some hardware that requires a full 4096
byte data stage. Without this patch, we fall short of that by
8 bytes on architectures with a 4K page size, and it becomes
impossible to support such hardware with a user-space driver.
Since any limit placed on control transfers by usbfs would be
arbitrary, this patch replaces the PAGE_SIZE limit with the same
arbitrary limit used by bulk transfers.
Signed-off-by: Micah Dowty <micah@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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check_ctrlrecip() disallows any control transfers if the device is
deconfigured (in configuration 0, ie. state ADDRESS). This for example
makes it impossible to read the device descriptors without configuring the
device, although most standard device requests are allowed in this state by
the spec. This patch allows control transfers for the ADDRESS state, too.
Signed-off-by: Horst Schirmeier <horst@schirmeier.com>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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drivers/usb/core/devio.c: In function `usbdev_read':
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:140: error: invalid type argument of `->'
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:141: error: invalid type argument of `->'
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:142: error: invalid type argument of `->'
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:143: error: invalid type argument of `->'
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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this is a small optimisation. It is ridiculous to do a kmalloc for
18 bytes. This puts it onto the stack.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as605) removes the private udev->serialize semaphore,
relying instead on the locking provided by the embedded struct device's
semaphore. The changes are confined to the core, except that the
usb_trylock_device routine now uses the return convention of
down_trylock rather than down_read_trylock (they return opposite values
for no good reason).
A couple of other associated changes are included as well:
Now that we aren't concerned about HCDs that avoid using the
hcd glue layer, usb_disconnect no longer needs to acquire the
usb_bus_lock -- that can be done by usb_remove_hcd where it
belongs.
Devices aren't locked over the same scope of code in
usb_new_device and hub_port_connect_change as they used to be.
This shouldn't cause any trouble.
Along with the preceding driver core patch, this needs a lot of testing.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It is no longer needed, so let's remove it, saving a bit of memory.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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drivers/usb/core/devio.c: In function `proc_ioctl_compat':
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1401: warning: passing arg 1 of `compat_ptr' makes integer from pointer without a cast
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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drivers/usb/core/devio.c: In function `proc_ioctl_compat':
drivers/usb/core/devio.c:1401: warning: passing arg 1 of `compat_ptr' makes integer from pointer without a cast
NFI if this is correct...
Cc: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch (as590) fixes up all the remaining places where usbcore can
use kzalloc rather than kmalloc/memset.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Dell supplied me with the following test:
#include<stdio.h>
#include<errno.h>
#include<sys/ioctl.h>
#include<fcntl.h>
#include<linux/usbdevice_fs.h>
main(int argc,char*argv[])
{
struct usbdevfs_hub_portinfo hubPortInfo = {0};
struct usbdevfs_ioctl command = {0};
command.ifno = 0;
command.ioctl_code = USBDEVFS_HUB_PORTINFO;
command.data = (void*)&hubPortInfo;
int fd, ret;
if(argc != 2) {
fprintf(stderr,"Usage: %s /proc/bus/usb/<BusNo>/<HubID>\n",argv[0]);
fprintf(stderr,"Example: %s /proc/bus/usb/001/001\n",argv[0]);
exit(1);
}
errno = 0;
fd = open(argv[1],O_RDWR);
if(fd < 0) {
perror("open failed:");
exit(errno);
}
errno = 0;
ret = ioctl(fd,USBDEVFS_IOCTL,&command);
printf("IOCTL return status:%d\n",ret);
if(ret<0) {
perror("IOCTL failed:");
close(fd);
exit(3);
} else {
printf("IOCTL passed:Num of ports %d\n",hubPortInfo.nports);
close(fd);
exit(0);
}
return 0;
}
I have verified that it breaks if built in 32 bit mode on x86_64 and that
the patch below fixes it.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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It's only used locally.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Now we can log the urbs travelling through usbfs
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The previous patch adding the ability to nest struct class_device
changed the paramaters to the call class_device_create(). This patch
fixes up all in-kernel users of the function.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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All the same issues - we can't just save the pointer to the thread, we
must save the pid/uid/euid combination.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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If a process issues an URB from userspace and (starts to) terminate
before the URB comes back, we run into the issue described above. This
is because the urb saves a pointer to "current" when it is posted to the
device, but there's no guarantee that this pointer is still valid
afterwards.
In fact, there are three separate issues:
1) the pointer to "current" can become invalid, since the task could be
completely gone when the URB completion comes back from the device.
2) Even if the saved task pointer is still pointing to a valid task_struct,
task_struct->sighand could have gone meanwhile.
3) Even if the process is perfectly fine, permissions may have changed,
and we can no longer send it a signal.
So what we do instead, is to save the PID and uid's of the process, and
introduce a new kill_proc_info_as_uid() function.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>
[ Fixed up types and added symbol exports ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch (as554) makes the hub driver disconnect any child USB devices
when it is unbound from a hub. Normally this will never happen, but
there are a few oddball ways to unbind the hub driver while leaving the
children intact. For example, the new "unbind" sysfs attribute can be
used for this purpose.
Given that unbinding hubs with children is now safe, the patch also
removes the code that prevented people from doing so using usbfs.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as551) fixes another little problem recently added to the
USB core. Someone didn't fix the type of the first argument to
unregister_chrdev_region.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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