On Wednesday 27 February 2013 10:27:32 Bjørn Mork wrote: > I believe we could drop the reslength field altogether, avoiding this > confusion. The field is only use to test for a 0 length read in a > context where desc->length is known to be 0. In fact, we are really > interested in the total desc->length anyway. The length of the last > read is completely irrelevant. > > If we don't drop it, then I believe you should set it to 0 on overflow. But we want user space to read and notice the error condition. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html