linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH, RFC] usbmon: correct computing of the ISO packets with mmap

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Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 10:06:50 -0500 (EST)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@...hat.com>
cc:	Németh Márton <nm127@...email.hu>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	<linux-usb@...r.kernel.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] usbmon: correct computing of the ISO packets with
 mmap

On Sun, 14 Nov 2010, Pete Zaitcev wrote:

> On Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:48:40 +0100
> NÃ©meth MÃ¡rton <nm127@...email.hu> wrote:
> 
> > ev_type == 'S' && usb_urb_dir_out(urb)  ---> data is available, we'll need it
> 
> The write submission case should be covered by the transfer_buffer_length,
> I think. Is there a driver that only sets the ISO descriptors but not
> the overall length?

If there is, it's a bug.  usb_submit_urb() could check for that sort of 
thing -- although so far nobody has complained of problems, so checking 
doesn't seem necessary.

Other things usb_submit_urb() could check for, but currently doesn't, 
include:

	Make sure the packet offsets are non-decreasing;

	Make sure the packet don't overlap in the buffer;

	Make sure the spacing between two consecutive packets
	in the buffer doesn't exceed some upper limit (needed
	by ehci-hcd).

Alan Stern

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