On Fri, 1 Aug 2014, Oliver Neukum wrote: > usbfs allows user space to pass down an URB which sets URB_SHORT_NOT_OK > for output URBs. That causes usbcore to log messages without limit > for a nonsensical disallowed combination. The fix is to silently drop > the attribute in usbfs. > The problem is reported to exist since 3.14 > https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/13085 > > Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxx> > CC: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > --- > drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c > index 257876e..0b59731 100644 > --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c > +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c > @@ -1509,7 +1509,7 @@ static int proc_do_submiturb(struct usb_dev_state *ps, struct usbdevfs_urb *uurb > u = (is_in ? URB_DIR_IN : URB_DIR_OUT); > if (uurb->flags & USBDEVFS_URB_ISO_ASAP) > u |= URB_ISO_ASAP; > - if (uurb->flags & USBDEVFS_URB_SHORT_NOT_OK) > + if (uurb->flags & USBDEVFS_URB_SHORT_NOT_OK && is_in) > u |= URB_SHORT_NOT_OK; > if (uurb->flags & USBDEVFS_URB_NO_FSBR) > u |= URB_NO_FSBR; Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Do you want to put in a one-time warning, so that people will be aware of these mistakes and are motivated to fix them? Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html