Re: [PATCH 001/001] USB: ftdi_sio: fix endianess of max packet size

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Aug 19 2010 - 17:46:34 EST


On Wed, 18 Aug 2010 07:14:37 -0700 (PDT)
Michael Wileczka <mikewileczka@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: Michael Wileczka <mikewileczka@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> The USB max packet size (always little-endian) was not being byte swapped on big-endian systems.
> Created with 2.6.32.16
> Applicable since [USB: ftdi_sio: fix hi-speed device packet size calculation] approx 2.6.31
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Wileczka <mikewileczka@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> --- a/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c
> @@ -1397,7 +1397,7 @@ static void ftdi_set_max_packet_size(str
> }
>
> /* set max packet size based on descriptor */
> - priv->max_packet_size = ep_desc->wMaxPacketSize;
> + priv->max_packet_size = le16_to_cpu(ep_desc->wMaxPacketSize);
>
> dev_info(&udev->dev, "Setting MaxPacketSize %d\n", priv->max_packet_size);
> }

So I guess nobody noticed this because the driver deosn't get used on
big-endian machines a lot?

What are the user-visible effects of this bug?
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