From 10e232c597ac757e7f8600649f7e872e86de190f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ming Lei Date: Fri, 28 Jun 2013 09:38:12 +0800 Subject: USB: check sg buffer size in usb_submit_urb USB spec stats that short packet can only appear at the end of transfer. Because lost of HC(EHCI/UHCI/OHCI/...) can't build a full packet from discontinuous buffers, we introduce the limit in usb_submit_urb() to avoid such kind of bad sg buffers coming from driver. The limit might be a bit strict: - platform has iommu to do sg list mapping - some host controllers may support to build full packet from discontinuous buffers. But considered that most of HCs don't support that, and driver need work well or keep consistent on different HCs and ARCHs, we have to introduce the limit. Currently, only usbtest is reported to pass such sg buffers to HC, and other users(mass storage, usbfs) don't have the problem. We don't check it on USB wireless device, because: - wireless devices can't be attached to common USB bus(EHCI/UHCI/OHCI/...) - the max packet size of endpoint may be odd, and often can't devide 4KB which is a typical usage in usb mass storage application Reported-by: Konstantin Filatov Reported-by: Denis V. Lunev Cc: Felipe Balbi Acked-by: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Ming Lei Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- include/linux/usb.h | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/usb.h') diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h index a232b7ece1f6..e99b2a114af4 100644 --- a/include/linux/usb.h +++ b/include/linux/usb.h @@ -1258,7 +1258,9 @@ typedef void (*usb_complete_t)(struct urb *); * the device driver is saying that it provided this DMA address, * which the host controller driver should use in preference to the * transfer_buffer. - * @sg: scatter gather buffer list + * @sg: scatter gather buffer list, the buffer size of each element in + * the list (except the last) must be divisible by the endpoint's + * max packet size * @num_mapped_sgs: (internal) number of mapped sg entries * @num_sgs: number of entries in the sg list * @transfer_buffer_length: How big is transfer_buffer. The transfer may -- cgit v1.2.3