linux/drivers/usb
Pete Zaitcev 4e9e920035 USB: usbmon: end ugly tricks with DMA peeking
This patch fixes crashes when usbmon attempts to access GART aperture.
The old code attempted to take a bus address and convert it into a
virtual address, which clearly was impossible on systems with actual
IOMMUs. Let us not persist in this foolishness, and use transfer_buffer
in all cases instead.

I think downsides are negligible. The ones I see are:
 - A driver may pass an address of one buffer down as transfer_buffer,
   and entirely different entity mapped for DMA, resulting in misleading
   output of usbmon. Note, however, that PIO based controllers would
   do transfer the same data that usbmon sees here.
 - Out of tree drivers may crash usbmon if they store garbage in
   transfer_buffer. I inspected the in-tree drivers, and clarified
   the documentation in comments.
 - Drivers that use get_user_pages will not be possible to monitor.
   I only found one driver with this problem (drivers/staging/rspiusb).
 - Same happens with with usb_storage transferring from highmem, but
   it works fine on 64-bit systems, so I think it's not a concern.
   At least we don't crash anymore.

Why didn't we do this in 2.6.10? That's because back in those days
it was popular not to fill in transfer_buffer, so almost all
traffic would be invisible (e.g. all of HID was like that).
But now, the tree is almost 100% PIO friendly, so we can do the
right thing at last.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-09-23 06:46:19 -07:00
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atm firmware: atm/ueagle-atm: prepare for FIRMWARE_NAME_MAX removal 2009-06-15 21:30:24 -07:00
c67x00 usb/c67x00 endianness annotations 2008-06-04 08:06:01 -07:00
class USB: fix cdc-acm regression in open 2009-09-23 06:46:16 -07:00
core USB: Fix SS endpoint companion descriptor parsing. 2009-09-23 06:46:18 -07:00
gadget const: mark remaining super_operations const 2009-09-22 07:17:24 -07:00
host USB: ehci-dbg.c: no need for checking it before call vfree 2009-09-23 06:46:18 -07:00
image USB: replace uses of __constant_{endian} 2009-03-24 16:20:33 -07:00
misc USB: sisusbvga: drop usb_buffer_alloc 2009-09-23 06:46:19 -07:00
mon USB: usbmon: end ugly tricks with DMA peeking 2009-09-23 06:46:19 -07:00
musb Merge branch 'master' into sh/hwblk 2009-08-15 13:00:02 +09:00
otg USB: otg: fix module reinsert issue 2009-07-12 15:16:41 -07:00
serial USB: serial: ftdi: handle gnICE+ JTAG adaptors 2009-09-23 06:46:16 -07:00
storage USB: storage: fix a resume path GFP_NOIO must be used 2009-09-23 06:46:15 -07:00
wusbcore trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management" 2009-09-21 15:14:56 +02:00
Kconfig usb: return device strings in UTF-8 2009-06-15 21:44:43 -07:00
Makefile USB: xhci: Add Makefile, MAINTAINERS, and Kconfig entries. 2009-06-15 21:44:51 -07:00
README
usb-skeleton.c USB: skeleton: Use dev_info instead of info 2009-03-24 16:20:30 -07:00

To understand all the Linux-USB framework, you'll use these resources:

    * This source code.  This is necessarily an evolving work, and
      includes kerneldoc that should help you get a current overview.
      ("make pdfdocs", and then look at "usb.pdf" for host side and
      "gadget.pdf" for peripheral side.)  Also, Documentation/usb has
      more information.

    * The USB 2.0 specification (from www.usb.org), with supplements
      such as those for USB OTG and the various device classes.
      The USB specification has a good overview chapter, and USB
      peripherals conform to the widely known "Chapter 9".

    * Chip specifications for USB controllers.  Examples include
      host controllers (on PCs, servers, and more); peripheral
      controllers (in devices with Linux firmware, like printers or
      cell phones); and hard-wired peripherals like Ethernet adapters.

    * Specifications for other protocols implemented by USB peripheral
      functions.  Some are vendor-specific; others are vendor-neutral
      but just standardized outside of the www.usb.org team.

Here is a list of what each subdirectory here is, and what is contained in
them.

core/		- This is for the core USB host code, including the
		  usbfs files and the hub class driver ("khubd").

host/		- This is for USB host controller drivers.  This
		  includes UHCI, OHCI, EHCI, and others that might
		  be used with more specialized "embedded" systems.

gadget/		- This is for USB peripheral controller drivers and
		  the various gadget drivers which talk to them.


Individual USB driver directories.  A new driver should be added to the
first subdirectory in the list below that it fits into.

image/		- This is for still image drivers, like scanners or
		  digital cameras.
../input/	- This is for any driver that uses the input subsystem,
		  like keyboard, mice, touchscreens, tablets, etc.
../media/	- This is for multimedia drivers, like video cameras,
		  radios, and any other drivers that talk to the v4l
		  subsystem.
../net/		- This is for network drivers.
serial/		- This is for USB to serial drivers.
storage/	- This is for USB mass-storage drivers.
class/		- This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
		  into any of the above categories, and work for a range
		  of USB Class specified devices. 
misc/		- This is for all USB device drivers that do not fit
		  into any of the above categories.