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    USB: usbmon: end ugly tricks with DMA peeking · 4e9e9200
    Pete Zaitcev authored
    
    
    This patch fixes crashes when usbmon attempts to access GART aperture.
    The old code attempted to take a bus address and convert it into a
    virtual address, which clearly was impossible on systems with actual
    IOMMUs. Let us not persist in this foolishness, and use transfer_buffer
    in all cases instead.
    
    I think downsides are negligible. The ones I see are:
     - A driver may pass an address of one buffer down as transfer_buffer,
       and entirely different entity mapped for DMA, resulting in misleading
       output of usbmon. Note, however, that PIO based controllers would
       do transfer the same data that usbmon sees here.
     - Out of tree drivers may crash usbmon if they store garbage in
       transfer_buffer. I inspected the in-tree drivers, and clarified
       the documentation in comments.
     - Drivers that use get_user_pages will not be possible to monitor.
       I only found one driver with this problem (drivers/staging/rspiusb).
     - Same happens with with usb_storage transferring from highmem, but
       it works fine on 64-bit systems, so I think it's not a concern.
       At least we don't crash anymore.
    
    Why didn't we do this in 2.6.10? That's because back in those days
    it was popular not to fill in transfer_buffer, so almost all
    traffic would be invisible (e.g. all of HID was like that).
    But now, the tree is almost 100% PIO friendly, so we can do the
    right thing at last.
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarPete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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