When a control URB is submitted, the direction indicated by URB's pipe member is supposed to match the direction indicated by the setup packet's bRequestType member. A mismatch could lead to trouble, depending on which field the host controller drivers use for determining the actual direction. This shouldn't ever happen; it would represent a careless bug in a kernel driver somewhere. This patch adds a dev_WARN to let people know about the potential problem. Suggested-by: "Geoffrey D. Bennett" <g@xxxxx> Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- [as1960] drivers/usb/core/urb.c | 3 +++ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+) Index: usb-devel/drivers/usb/core/urb.c =================================================================== --- usb-devel.orig/drivers/usb/core/urb.c +++ usb-devel/drivers/usb/core/urb.c @@ -407,6 +407,9 @@ int usb_submit_urb(struct urb *urb, gfp_ return -ENOEXEC; is_out = !(setup->bRequestType & USB_DIR_IN) || !setup->wLength; + if (usb_pipeout(urb->pipe) != is_out) + dev_WARN(&dev->dev, "BOGUS control dir, pipe %x doesn't match bRequestType %x\n", + urb->pipe, setup->bRequestType); } else { is_out = usb_endpoint_dir_out(&ep->desc); }