kernel/linux.git/drivers/usb/mon, branch v7.0-rc7

Convert more 'alloc_obj' cases to default GFP_KERNEL arguments

2026-02-22T04:03:00+00:00

This converts some of the visually simpler cases that have been split over multiple lines. I only did the ones that are easy to verify the resulting diff by having just that final GFP_KERNEL argument on the next line. Somebody should probably do a proper coccinelle script for this, but for me the trivial script actually resulted in an assertion failure in the middle of the script. I probably had made it a bit _too_ trivial. So after fighting that far a while I decided to just do some of the syntactically simpler cases with variations of the previous 'sed' scripts. The more syntactically complex multi-line cases would mostly really want whitespace cleanup anyway. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument

2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00

This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using git grep -l '\

treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types

2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00

This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union object instances: Single allocations: kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...) Array allocations: kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...) Flex array allocations: kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...) are replaced with: kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...) (where TYPE may also be *VAR) The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning "TYPE *". Signed-off-by: Kees Cook

usb: mon: Increase BUFF_MAX to 64 MiB to support multi-MB URBs

2025-09-17T10:40:05+00:00

The usbmon binary interface currently truncates captures of large transfers from higher-speed USB devices. Because a single event capture is limited to one-fifth of the total buffer size, the current maximum size of a captured URB is around 240 KiB. This is insufficient when capturing traffic from modern devices that use transfers of several hundred kilobytes or more, as truncated URBs can make it impossible for user-space USB analysis tools like Wireshark to properly defragment and reassemble higher-level protocol packets in the captured data. The root cause of this issue is the 1200 KiB BUFF_MAX limit, which has not been changed since the binary interface was introduced in 2006. To resolve this issue, this patch increases BUFF_MAX to 64 MiB. The original comment for BUFF_MAX based the limit's calculation on a saturated 480 Mbit/s bus. Applying the same logic to a modern USB 3.2 Gen 2×2 20 Gbit/s bus (~2500 MB/s over a 20ms window) indicates the buffer should be at least 50 MB. The new limit of 64 MiB covers that, plus a little extra for any overhead. With this change, both users and developers should now be able to debug and reverse engineer modern USB devices even when running unmodified distro kernels. Please note that this change does not affect the default buffer size. A larger buffer is only allocated when a user explicitly requests it via the MON_IOCT_RING_SIZE ioctl, so the change to the maximum buffer size should not unduly increase memory usage for users that don't deliberately request a larger buffer. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/CAO3ALPzdUkmMr0YMrODLeDSLZqNCkWcAP8NumuPHLjNJ8wC1kQ@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Forest Crossman Acked-by: Alan Stern Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/CAO3ALPxU5RzcoueC454L=WZ1qGMfAcnxm+T+p+9D8O9mcrUbCQ@mail.gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

drivers/usb/mon: refactor min with min_t

2024-11-13T14:09:51+00:00

Ensure type safety by using min_t() instead of casted min(). Signed-off-by: Sabyrzhan Tasbolatov Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241112155817.3512577-6-snovitoll@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

[tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out

2024-09-27T15:18:43+00:00

no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441 ("fs: remove no_llseek") To quote that commit, At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek - git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do sed -i '/\/d' $i done would do it. Unfortunately, that hadn't been done. Linus, could you do that now, so that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the form .llseek = no_llseek, so it's obviously safe. Signed-off-by: Al Viro Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

usb: add missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macros

2024-06-20T17:18:52+00:00

With ARCH=x86, make allmodconfig && make W=1 C=1 reports: WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/core/usbcore.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/mon/usbmon.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/class/usbtmc.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/storage/uas.o WARNING: modpost: missing MODULE_DESCRIPTION() in drivers/usb/chipidea/ci_hdrc_msm.o Add the missing invocations of the MODULE_DESCRIPTION() macro. Signed-off-by: Jeff Johnson Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240618-md-drivers-usb-v2-1-e9b20a5eb7f9@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: mon: Fix atomicity violation in mon_bin_vma_fault

2024-01-05T09:36:08+00:00

In mon_bin_vma_fault(): offset = vmf->pgoff << PAGE_SHIFT; if (offset >= rp->b_size) return VM_FAULT_SIGBUS; chunk_idx = offset / CHUNK_SIZE; pageptr = rp->b_vec[chunk_idx].pg; The code is executed without holding any lock. In mon_bin_vma_close(): spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->b_lock, flags); rp->mmap_active--; spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rp->b_lock, flags); In mon_bin_ioctl(): spin_lock_irqsave(&rp->b_lock, flags); if (rp->mmap_active) { ... } else { ... kfree(rp->b_vec); rp->b_vec = vec; rp->b_size = size; ... } spin_unlock_irqrestore(&rp->b_lock, flags); Concurrent execution of mon_bin_vma_fault() with mon_bin_vma_close() and mon_bin_ioctl() could lead to atomicity violations. mon_bin_vma_fault() accesses rp->b_size and rp->b_vec without locking, risking array out-of-bounds access or use-after-free bugs due to possible modifications in mon_bin_ioctl(). This possible bug is found by an experimental static analysis tool developed by our team, BassCheck[1]. This tool analyzes the locking APIs to extract function pairs that can be concurrently executed, and then analyzes the instructions in the paired functions to identify possible concurrency bugs including data races and atomicity violations. The above possible bug is reported when our tool analyzes the source code of Linux 6.2. To address this issue, it is proposed to add a spin lock pair in mon_bin_vma_fault() to ensure atomicity. With this patch applied, our tool never reports the possible bug, with the kernel configuration allyesconfig for x86_64. Due to the lack of associated hardware, we cannot test the patch in runtime testing, and just verify it according to the code logic. [1] https://sites.google.com/view/basscheck/ Fixes: 19e6317d24c2 ("usb: mon: Fix a deadlock in usbmon between ...") Cc: Signed-off-by: Gui-Dong Han <2045gemini@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240105052412.9377-1-2045gemini@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: mon_text: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant

2023-12-15T12:55:30+00:00

There is a general misunderstanding amongst engineers that {v}snprintf() returns the length of the data *actually* encoded into the destination array. However, as per the C99 standard {v}snprintf() really returns the length of the data that *would have been* written if there were enough space for it. This misunderstanding has led to buffer-overruns in the past. It's generally considered safer to use the {v}scnprintf() variants in their place (or even sprintf() in simple cases). So let's do that. Link: https://lwn.net/Articles/69419/ Link: https://github.com/KSPP/linux/issues/105 Signed-off-by: Lee Jones Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20231213164246.1021885-11-lee@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: mon_stat: Replace snprintf() with the safer scnprintf() variant

2023-12-15T12:55:30+00:00