Re: [PATCH] usb-storage: Add Brain USB3-FW to IGNORE_UAS

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Mar 02, 2024 at 07:06:20PM +0700, Lars Melin wrote:
> On 2024-03-01 23:53, Alan Stern wrote:
> > >   drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h | 7 +++++++
> > >   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h b/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h
> > > index 1f8c9b16a0fb..98b7ff2c76ba 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/usb/storage/unusual_uas.h
> > > @@ -83,6 +83,13 @@ UNUSUAL_DEV(0x0bc2, 0x331a, 0x0000, 0x9999,
> > >   		USB_SC_DEVICE, USB_PR_DEVICE, NULL,
> > >   		US_FL_NO_REPORT_LUNS),
> > > +/* Reported-by: Tom Hu <huxiaoying@kylinos.cn> */
> > > +UNUSUAL_DEV(0x1234, 0x1234, 0x0000, 0x9999,
> > 
> > The vendor and product ID values have a suspicious look, but they appear
> > to be genuine.
> 
> Hi Alan,
> it is of course a bogus Id, here is another one:
> 
> "SmartWi - Multi Room Solution is a Smart Card Reader hardware device. This
> driver was developed by SmartWi International A/S. The hardware id of this
> driver is USB/VID_1234&PID_1234."
> 
> found by googling vid_1234&pid_1234.
> 
> There are others like 1234:5678 which also looks suspicious.

Yeah, this is a "fake" number, which happens a lot (0000/0000 is also
used.)

Because of this, I don't know if we should take this change.  It
obviously fixes an issue for _this_ device, but for any other
usb-storage device using this fake id, will it cause issues?

thanks,

greg k-h