Re: [PATCH v2] char: xillybus: Check endpoint type before allocing

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, May 23, 2022 at 08:05:47PM +0300, Eli Billauer wrote:
> On 23/05/22 19:06, Greg KH wrote:
> > If the device does not have the EXACT USB endpoints that you are
> > expecting (size, address, direction, type, etc.) at probe time reject
> > the device.
> This is probably a good time to add some information about XillyUSB.
> 
> All XillyUSB devices have EP 1 IN and EP 1 OUT as bulk endpoints.
> 
> On top of that, they *may* have up to 14 additional bulk OUT endpoints,
> having the addresses EP 2 OUT to EP 15 OUT. The population of endpoint
> addresses is not necessarily continuous. Any set of OUT endpoint addresses
> is allowed. The driver doesn't know which of these endpoints are available
> initially.
> 
> Rather, it works like this: The driver uses the EP 1 IN and OUT endpoints to
> query the device for a data structure, which contains information on the
> device's communication channels. The driver sets up device files
> accordingly, and it also gets informed on which bulk OUT endpoints are
> present.
> 
> For what it's worth, I think it's fairly safe to assume that if a device
> returns a legal data structure (which passes a CRC test), it's a XillyUSB
> device.

Why?  You still need to verify that the requested endpoints match up
with what the device really has.

Again, we are talking about "fake" devices that are being used to find
problems in the kernel drivers, this is not a "real" device, yet can
look a lot like one.  Look at the fuzzing tools that are running for
examples of this.

> Either way, it's impossible to verify that all of the device's bulk
> OUT endpoints are correct before obtaining the data structure from the
> device. The fact that each device has a different set of communication
> channels, and that the driver learns about them in run-time is the whole
> trick with Xillybus and XillyUSB.

That's fine, but that can still be done a probe() time, not open() time,
like the current patch was attempting.  That's much too late.

thanks,

greg k-h