USB: usbmon: end ugly tricks with DMA peeking

This patch fixes crashes when usbmon attempts to access GART aperture.
The old code attempted to take a bus address and convert it into a
virtual address, which clearly was impossible on systems with actual
IOMMUs. Let us not persist in this foolishness, and use transfer_buffer
in all cases instead.

I think downsides are negligible. The ones I see are:
 - A driver may pass an address of one buffer down as transfer_buffer,
   and entirely different entity mapped for DMA, resulting in misleading
   output of usbmon. Note, however, that PIO based controllers would
   do transfer the same data that usbmon sees here.
 - Out of tree drivers may crash usbmon if they store garbage in
   transfer_buffer. I inspected the in-tree drivers, and clarified
   the documentation in comments.
 - Drivers that use get_user_pages will not be possible to monitor.
   I only found one driver with this problem (drivers/staging/rspiusb).
 - Same happens with with usb_storage transferring from highmem, but
   it works fine on 64-bit systems, so I think it's not a concern.
   At least we don't crash anymore.

Why didn't we do this in 2.6.10? That's because back in those days
it was popular not to fill in transfer_buffer, so almost all
traffic would be invisible (e.g. all of HID was like that).
But now, the tree is almost 100% PIO friendly, so we can do the
right thing at last.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 14 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
index a7eb4c99342..9f1a9227ebe 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/mon/mon_text.c
@@ -150,20 +150,6 @@ static inline char mon_text_get_data(struct mon_event_text *ep, struct urb *urb,
 			return '>';
 	}
 
-	/*
-	 * The check to see if it's safe to poke at data has an enormous
-	 * number of corner cases, but it seems that the following is
-	 * more or less safe.
-	 *
-	 * We do not even try to look at transfer_buffer, because it can
-	 * contain non-NULL garbage in case the upper level promised to
-	 * set DMA for the HCD.
-	 */
-	if (urb->dev->bus->uses_dma &&
-	    (urb->transfer_flags & URB_NO_TRANSFER_DMA_MAP)) {
-		return mon_dmapeek(ep->data, urb->transfer_dma, len);
-	}
-
 	if (urb->transfer_buffer == NULL)
 		return 'Z';	/* '0' would be not as pretty. */