This patch (as1258) implements a feature that users have been asking
for: It gives programs the ability to "claim" a port on a hub, via a
new usbfs ioctl. A device plugged into a "claimed" port will not be
touched by the kernel beyond the immediate necessities of
initialization and enumeration.
In particular, when a device is plugged into a "claimed" port, the
kernel will not select and install a configuration. And when a config
is installed by usbfs or sysfs, the kernel will not probe any drivers
for any of the interfaces. (However the kernel will fetch various
string descriptors during enumeration. One could argue that this
isn't really necessary, but the strings are exported in sysfs.)
The patch does not guarantee exclusive access to these devices; it is
still possible for more than one program to open the device file
concurrently. Programs are responsible for coordinating access among
themselves.
A demonstration program showing how to use the new interface can be
found in an attachment to
http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=124345857431452&w=2
The patch also makes a small simplification to the hub driver,
replacing a bunch of more-or-less useless variants of "out of memory"
with a single message.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Let attribute group vectors be declared "const". We'd
like to let most attribute metadata live in read-only
sections... this is a start.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The endpoint devices look like simple attribute groups now, and no longer
like devices with a specific subsystem. They will also no longer emit uevents.
It also removes the device node requests for endpoint devices, which are not
implemented for now.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
The usb_host class isn't used for anything anymore (it was used for
debug files, but they have moved to debugfs a few kernel releases ago),
so let's delete it before someone accidentally puts a file in it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1198) fixes a conceptual bug: Somewhere along the line
we managed to confuse USB class devices with USB char devices. As a
result, the code to send a disconnect signal to userspace would not be
built if both CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS and CONFIG_USB_DEVICEFS were
disabled.
The usb_fs_classdev_common_remove() routine has been renamed to
usbdev_remove() and it is now called whenever any USB device is
removed, not just when a class device is unregistered. The notifier
registration and unregistration calls are no longer conditionally
compiled. And since the common removal code will always be called as
part of the char device interface, there's no need to call it again as
part of the usbfs interface; thus the invocation of
usb_fs_classdev_common_remove() has been taken out of
usbfs_remove_device().
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
This patch (as1200) finishes some fixes that were left incomplete by
an earlier patch.
Although nobody has addressed this issue in the past, it turns out
that we need to distinguish between two different modes of disabling
and enabling endpoints. In one mode only the data structures in
usbcore are affected, and in the other mode the host controller and
device hardware states are affected as well.
The earlier patch added an extra argument to the routines in the
enable_endpoint pathways to reflect this difference. This patch adds
corresponding arguments to the disable_endpoint pathways. Without
this change, the endpoint toggle state can get out of sync between
the host and the device. The exact mechanism depends on the details
of the host controller (whether or not it stores its own copy of the
toggle values).
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Tested-by: Dan Streetman <ddstreet@ieee.org>
Cc: stable <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1197) fixes an error introduced recently. Since a
significant number of devices can't handle Set-Interface requests, we
no longer call usb_set_interface() when a driver unbinds from an
interface, provided the interface is already in altsetting 0. However
the interface still does get disabled, and the call to
usb_set_interface() was the only thing re-enabling it. Since the
interface doesn't get re-enabled, further attempts to use it fail.
So the patch adds a call to usb_enable_interface() when a driver
unbinds and the interface is in altsetting 0. For this to work
right, the interface's endpoints have to be re-enabled but their
toggles have to be left alone. Therefore an additional argument is
added to usb_enable_endpoint() and usb_enable_interface(), a flag
indicating whether or not the endpoint toggles should be reset.
This is a forward-ported version of a patch which fixes Bugzilla
#12301.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Reported-by: David Roka <roka@dawid.hu>
Reported-by: Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>
Tested-by: Erik Ekman <erik@kryo.se>
Tested-by: Alon Bar-Lev <alon.barlev@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1185) makes usbcore take advantage of the bus
notifications sent out by the driver core. Now we can create all our
device and interface attribute files before the device or interface
uevent is broadcast.
A side effect is that we no longer create the endpoint "pseudo"
devices at the same time as a device or interface is registered -- it
seems like a bad idea to try registering an endpoint before the
registration of its parent is complete. So the routines for creating
and removing endpoint devices have been split out and renamed, and
they are called explicitly when needed. A new bitflag is used for
keeping track of whether or not the interface's endpoint devices have
been created, since (just as with the interface attributes) they vary
with the altsetting and hence can be changed at random times.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1177) modifies the USB core suspend and resume
routines. The resume functions now will take a pm_message_t argument,
so they will know what sort of resume is occurring. The new argument
is also passed to the port suspend/resume and bus suspend/resume
routines (although they don't use it for anything but debugging).
In addition, special pm_message_t values are used for user-initiated,
device-initiated (i.e., remote wakeup), and automatic suspend/resume.
By testing these values, drivers can tell whether or not a particular
suspend was an autosuspend. Unfortunately, they can't do the same for
resumes -- not until the pm_message_t argument is also passed to the
drivers' resume methods. That will require a bigger change.
IMO, the whole Power Management framework should have been set up this
way in the first place.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1160b) adds support routines for asynchronous autosuspend
and autoresume, with accompanying documentation updates. There
already are several potential users of this interface, and others are
likely to arise as autosuspend support becomes more widespread.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1129) adds support for the new PM callbacks to usbcore.
The new callbacks merely invoke the same old USB power management
routines as the old ones did.
A minor improvement is that the callbacks are present only in the
"USB-device" device_type structure, rather than in the bus_type
structure. This way they will be invoked only for USB devices, not
for USB interfaces. The core USB PM routines automatically handle
suspending and resuming interfaces along with their devices.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
USB device files are accessible in two ways: as files in usbfs and as
character device nodes. The two paths are supposed to behave
identically, but they don't. When the underlying USB device is
unplugged, disconnect signals are sent to processes with open usbfs
files (if they requested these signals) but not to processes with open
device node files.
This patch (as1104) fixes the bug by moving the disconnect-signalling
code into a common subroutine which is called from both paths.
Putting this subroutine in devio.c removes the only out-of-file
reference to struct dev_state, and so the structure's declaration can
be moved from usb.h into devio.c.
Finally, the new subroutine performs one extra action: It kills all
the outstanding async URBs. (I'd kill the outstanding synchronous
URBs too, if there was any way to do it.) In the past this hasn't
mattered much, because devices were unregistered from usbfs only
when they were disconnected. But now the unregistration can also
occur whenever devices are unbound from the usb_generic driver. At
any rate, killing URBs when a device is unregistered from usbfs seems
like a good thing to do.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1024) takes care of a FIXME issue: Drivers that don't
have the necessary suspend, resume, reset_resume, pre_reset, or
post_reset methods will be unbound and their interface reprobed when
one of the unsupported events occurs.
This is made slightly more difficult by the fact that bind operations
won't work during a system sleep transition. So instead the code has
to defer the operation until the transition ends.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as1087d) fixes a long-standing problem in usbcore: Device,
interface, and endpoint attributes aren't added until _after_ the
creation uevent has already been broadcast.
Unfortunately there are a few attributes which cannot be created that
early. The "descriptors" attribute is binary and so must be created
separately. The power-management attributes can't be created until
the dev/power/ group exists. And the interface string can vary from
one altsetting to another, so it has to be created dynamically.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
power.power_state is scheduled for removal. This patch (as1053)
removes all uses of that field from drivers/usb. Almost all of them
were write-only, the most significant exceptions being sl811-hcd.c and
u132-hcd.c.
Part of this patch was written by Pavel Machek.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
As it is global, give it a usb specific name in the global namespace.
Cc: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
These USB API functions will do the full authorization/deauthorization
to be used for a device. When authorized we effectively allow a
configuration to be set. Reverse that when deauthorized.
Effectively this means that we have to clean all the configuration
descriptors on deauthorize and reload them when we authorized. We could
do without throwing them out for wired devices, but for wireless, we can
read them only after authenticating, and thus, when authorizing an
authenticated device we would need to read them. So to simplify, always
release them on deauthorize(), re-read them on authorize().
Also fix leak reported by Ragner Magalhaes; in usb_deauthorize_device(),
bNumConfigurations was being set to zero before the for loop, and thus
the different raw descriptors where never being freed.
Signed-off-by: Inaky Perez-Gonzalez <inaky@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as944) adds an explicit "enabled" field to the
usb_host_endpoint structure and uses it in place of the current
mechanism. This is merely a time-space tradeoff; it makes checking
whether URBs may be submitted to an endpoint simpler. The existing
mechanism is efficient when converting urb->pipe to an endpoint
pointer, but it's not so efficient when urb->ep is used instead.
As a side effect, the procedure for enabling an endpoint is now a
little more complicated. The ad-hoc inline code in usb.c and hub.c
for enabling ep0 is now replaced with calls to usb_enable_endpoint,
which is no longer static.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as919) unifies the code paths used for normal resume and
for reset-resume. Earlier I had failed to note a section in the USB
spec which requires the host to resume a suspended port before
resetting it if the attached device is enabled for remote wakeup.
Since the port has to be resumed anyway, we might as well reuse the
existing code.
The main changes are:
usb_reset_suspended_device() is eliminated.
usb_root_hub_lost_power() is moved down next to the
hub_reset_resume() routine, to which it is logically
related.
finish_port_resume() does a port reset() if the device's
reset_resume flag is set.
usb_port_resume() doesn't check whether the port is initially
enabled if this is a USB-Persist sort of resume.
Code to perform the port reset is added to the resume pathway
for the non-CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND case.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as915b) combines the public routine usb_port_suspend() and
the private routine __usb_port_suspend() into a single function.
By removing the explicit mention of otg_port in the call to
__usb_port_suspend(), we prevent a possible error in which the system
tries to perform HNP on the wrong port when a non-targeted device is
plugged into a non-OTG port.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility,
allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system
suspend.
The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate
warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the
behavior will remain the same as it is now. But when the option is
on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB
filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small
machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device!
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as880) strives to keep the PM core's idea of a USB
interface's power state in synch with usbcore's own idea. In the end
this doesn't really matter, but it's better to be consistent.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
This patch (as866) adds new entry points for external USB device
suspend and resume requests, as opposed to internally-generated
autosuspend or autoresume. It also changes the existing
remote-wakeup code paths to use the new routines, since remote wakeup
is not the same as autoresume.
As part of the change, it turns out to be necessary to do remote
wakeup of root hubs from a workqueue. We had been using khubd, but it
does autoresume rather than an external resume. Using the
ksuspend_usb_wq workqueue for this purpose seemed a logical choice.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as864) moves the work routine for USB autosuspend from one
source file to another. This permits the removal of one whole global
symbol (!) and should smooth the way for more changes in the future.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as861) adds sysfs attributes to expose the autosuspend
delay value for each USB device. If the user changes the delay from 0
(no autosuspend) to a positive value, an autosuspend is attempted.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as859) makes the default USB autosuspend delay a module
parameter of usbcore. By setting the delay value at boot time, users
will be able to prevent the system from autosuspending devices which
for some reason can't handle it.
The patch also stores the autosuspend delay as a per-device value. A
later patch will allow the user to change the value, tailoring the
delay for each individual device. A delay value of 0 will prevent
autosuspend.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This adds a blacklist to the USB core to handle some autosuspend and
string issues that devices have.
Originally written by Oliver, but hacked up a lot by Greg.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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>
This patch (as791b) fixes things up to avoid compiler warnings or
errors when CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND or CONFIG_PM isn't set.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as787) creates a new workqueue thread to handle delayed
USB autosuspend requests. Previously the code used keventd. However
it turns out that the hub driver's suspend routine calls
flush_scheduled_work(), making it a poor candidate for running in
keventd (the call immediately deadlocks). The solution is to use a
new thread instead of keventd.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as740) removes the existing support for autosuspend of
root hubs. That support fit in rather awkwardly with the rest of
usbcore and it was used only by ohci-hcd. It won't be needed any more
since the hub driver will take care of autosuspending all hubs, root
or external.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as739) adds the basic infrastructure for USB autosuspend
and autoresume. The main features are:
PM usage counters added to struct usb_device and struct
usb_interface, indicating whether it's okay to autosuspend
them or they are currently in use.
Flag added to usb_device indicating whether the current
suspend/resume operation originated from outside or as an
autosuspend/autoresume.
Flag added to usb_driver indicating whether the driver
supports autosuspend. If not, no device bound to the driver
will be autosuspended.
Mutex added to usb_device for protecting PM operations.
Unlike the device semaphore, the locking rule for the pm_mutex
is that you must acquire the locks going _up_ the device tree.
New routines handling autosuspend/autoresume requests for
interfaces and devices.
Suspend and resume requests are propagated up the device tree
(but not outside the USB subsystem).
work_struct added to usb_device, for carrying out delayed
autosuspend requests.
Autoresume added (and autosuspend prevented) during probe and
disconnect.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
drivers/usb/core/hub.c: In function `hub_events':
drivers/usb/core/hub.c:2591: warning: statement with no effect
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch marks some USB core's functions parameters as const. This
improves the design (we're saying to the caller that its parameter is
not going to be modified) and may help in compiler's optimisation work.
Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
This patch (as736) makes the hub driver more readable by improving the
usage of "#ifdef CONFIG_PM" and "#ifdef CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND".
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Currently we rely on intf->dev.power.power_state.event for tracking
whether intf is suspended. This is not a reliable technique because
that value is owned by the PM core, not by usbcore. This patch (as718b)
adds a new flag so that we can accurately tell which interfaces are
suspended and which aren't.
At first one might think these flags aren't needed, since interfaces
will be suspended along with their devices. It turns out there are a
couple of intermediate situations where that's not quite true, such as
while processing a remote-wakeup request.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as717b) removes the existing recursion in hub resume code:
Resuming a hub will no longer automatically resume the devices attached
to the hub.
At the same time, it adds one level of recursion: Suspending a USB
device will automatically suspend all the device's interfaces. Failure
at an intermediate stage will cause all the already-suspended interfaces
to be resumed. Attempts to suspend or resume an interface by itself will
do nothing, although they won't return an error. Thus the regular
system-suspend and system-resume procedures should continue to work as
before; only runtime PM will be affected.
The patch also removes the code that tests state of the interfaces
before suspending a device. It's no longer needed, since everything
gets suspended together.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This patch (as732) adds a usb_device_driver structure, for representing
drivers that manage an entire USB device as opposed to just an
interface. Support routines like usb_register_device_driver,
usb_deregister_device_driver, usb_probe_device, and usb_unbind_device
are also added.
Unlike an earlier version of this patch, the new code is type-safe. To
accomplish this, the existing struct driver embedded in struct
usb_driver had to be wrapped in an intermediate wrapper. This enables
the core to tell at runtime whether a particular struct driver belongs
to a device driver or to an interface driver.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This revised patch (as713b) moves a few routines among source files in
usbcore. Some driver-related code in usb.c (claiming interfaces and
matching IDs) is moved to driver.c, where it belongs. Also the
usb_generic stuff in driver.c is moved to a new source file: generic.c.
(That's the reason for revising the patch.) Although not very big now,
it will get bigger in a later patch.
None of the code has been changed; it has only been re-arranged.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
This revised patch (as715b) renames usb_suspend_device to
usb_port_suspend, usb_resume_device to usb_port_resume, and
finish_device_resume to finish_port_resume. There was no objection to
the original version of the patch so this should be okay to apply.
The revision was needed only because I have re-arranged the order of the
earlier patches.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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>
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>
Instead of a kobject, will make things easier in the future (don't know
what I was thinking when I did this originally...)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Alan Stern