From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: usb devicefs flaw
Date: Sun, 4 Aug 2002 12:22:15 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020804192215.GA23659@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <UTC200208041858.g74IwNr05640.aeb@smtp.cwi.nl>
On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 08:58:23PM +0200, Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl wrote:
> In drivers/usb/core/usb.c the routine usb_alloc_dev() will
> set the devpath for the root hub to "/".
> Then usb_find_drivers() constructs a filename used by driverfs
> using
>
> sprintf (&interface->dev.bus_id[0], "%s-%s:%d",
> dev->bus->bus_name, dev->devpath,
> interface->altsetting->bInterfaceNumber);
>
> This leads to filenames like "00:07.2-/:0" with embedded '/'.
Fix is already in Linus's tree, thanks to David Brownell:
http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.437.41.12
Original patch sent to linux-usb-devel for this is at:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=102831350007377&w=2
thanks,
greg k-h
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