[PATCH] usb: gadget: udc: atmel: Fix check in usba_ep_enable()

Boris Brezillon boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com
Tue Dec 6 14:06:04 PST 2016


Hi Felipe,

I realize I sent this patch to your old @ti.com email address. Do you
want me to resend it?

Regards,

Boris

On Tue,  6 Dec 2016 22:59:43 +0100
Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com> wrote:

> desc->bEndpointAddress & USB_ENDPOINT_NUMBER_MASK is not necessarily
> equal to ep->index and that's perfectly fine. The usba endpoint index is
> just an internal identifier used by the driver to know which registers
> to use for a USB endpoint.
> 
> Enforcing this constraint is not only useless, but can also lead to
> errors since nothing guarantees that the endpoint number and index are
> matching when an endpoint is selected for a specific descriptor, thus
> leading to errors at ->enable() time when it's already too late to choose
> another endpoint.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at free-electrons.com>
> ---
> Hi,
> 
> I intentionally didn't add the Cc stable and Fixes tags because this
> bug dates back to the drivers creation, and I fear the index <->
> epnum constraint was actually required at that time.
> 
> Note that I discovered this bug thanks to the WARN_ON_ONCE() in
> usb_ep_queue() [1] which was introduced in 4.5.
> It might appear that this problem was silently ignored before that
> (with part of the usba_ep_enable() code being skipped without any
> notice).
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Boris
> 
> [1]http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/core.c#L264
> ---
>  drivers/usb/gadget/udc/atmel_usba_udc.c | 7 ++-----
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/atmel_usba_udc.c b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/atmel_usba_udc.c
> index bb1f6c8f0f01..981d2639d413 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/atmel_usba_udc.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/gadget/udc/atmel_usba_udc.c
> @@ -531,11 +531,8 @@ usba_ep_enable(struct usb_ep *_ep, const struct usb_endpoint_descriptor *desc)
>  
>  	maxpacket = usb_endpoint_maxp(desc) & 0x7ff;
>  
> -	if (((desc->bEndpointAddress & USB_ENDPOINT_NUMBER_MASK) != ep->index)
> -			|| ep->index == 0
> -			|| desc->bDescriptorType != USB_DT_ENDPOINT
> -			|| maxpacket == 0
> -			|| maxpacket > ep->fifo_size) {
> +	if (ep->index == 0 || desc->bDescriptorType != USB_DT_ENDPOINT ||
> +	    maxpacket == 0 || maxpacket > ep->fifo_size) {
>  		DBG(DBG_ERR, "ep_enable: Invalid argument");
>  		return -EINVAL;
>  	}




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