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| author | Alex Cheema <alex@exolabs.net> | 2026-04-29 20:57:39 +0300 |
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| committer | Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org> | 2026-05-02 03:17:27 +0300 |
| commit | a5148bc2fa27092862ac4b9e7b5c8340d60cff34 (patch) | |
| tree | d0c904c38643b11e265f272094893453914e6871 /drivers | |
| parent | c6bebaa744f7579eb72800a262fbfeb93e40db04 (diff) | |
| download | linux-a5148bc2fa27092862ac4b9e7b5c8340d60cff34.tar.xz | |
net: usb: cdc_ncm: add Apple Mac USB-C direct networking quirk
Apple Silicon Macs expose two CDC NCM "private" data interfaces over
USB-C with VID:PID 0x05ac:0x1905 and product string "Mac". This is the
same protocol Apple already ships on iPhone (0x05ac:0x12a8) and iPad
(0x05ac:0x12ab) for RemoteXPC since iOS 17 -- both data interfaces lack
an interrupt status endpoint, so they rely on the FLAG_LINK_INTR-
conditional bind path introduced in commit 3ec8d7572a69 ("CDC-NCM: add
support for Apple's private interface").
The id_table currently has entries for iPhone and iPad but not for the
Mac. Without a match, cdc_ncm falls through to the generic CDC NCM
class-match entry, which uses the FLAG_LINK_INTR-having cdc_ncm_info
struct, so bind_common() fails on the missing status endpoint and no
netdev appears.
Add id_table entries for both interface numbers (0 and 2) of the Mac,
bound to the existing apple_private_interface_info driver_info.
Verified empirically on a Mac Studio M3 Ultra running macOS 26.5: when
a Mac is connected via USB-C, ioreg shows VID 0x05ac, PID 0x1905,
product string "Mac", with two NCM data interfaces at numbers 0 and 2.
The same PID is presented by all current Apple Silicon Mac models
(MacBook Pro/Air, Mac mini, Mac Studio across the M-series), mirroring
Apple's single-PID-per-family pattern from iPhone/iPad.
After this patch, plugging a Mac into a Linux host running the patched
kernel produces two enx... interfaces (one per data interface),
"ip -br link" lists them as UP, and standard userspace networking
(DHCP, NetworkManager shared mode, etc.) works without any modprobe
overrides or out-of-tree modules.
Signed-off-by: Alex Cheema <alex@exolabs.net>
Reviewed-by: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260429175739.34426-1-alex@exolabs.net
Signed-off-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c index bb9929727eb9..0223a172851e 100644 --- a/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c +++ b/drivers/net/usb/cdc_ncm.c @@ -2012,6 +2012,14 @@ static const struct usb_device_id cdc_devs[] = { .driver_info = (unsigned long)&apple_private_interface_info, }, + /* Mac */ + { USB_DEVICE_INTERFACE_NUMBER(0x05ac, 0x1905, 0), + .driver_info = (unsigned long)&apple_private_interface_info, + }, + { USB_DEVICE_INTERFACE_NUMBER(0x05ac, 0x1905, 2), + .driver_info = (unsigned long)&apple_private_interface_info, + }, + /* Ericsson MBM devices like F5521gw */ { .match_flags = USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_INT_INFO | USB_DEVICE_ID_MATCH_VENDOR, |