USB: core: Don't hold device lock while reading the "descriptors" sysfs file
authorAlan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Tue, 31 Jan 2023 20:49:04 +0000 (15:49 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fri, 3 Mar 2023 10:45:54 +0000 (11:45 +0100)
commit77358093331e9769855140bf94a3f00ecdcf4bb1
treefa18163387f5109919de596a285c4486f407a676
parent3b24c980dc07be4550a9d1450ed7057f882530e5
USB: core: Don't hold device lock while reading the "descriptors" sysfs file

commit 45bf39f8df7f05efb83b302c65ae3b9bc92b7065 upstream.

Ever since commit 83e83ecb79a8 ("usb: core: get config and string
descriptors for unauthorized devices") was merged in 2013, there has
been no mechanism for reallocating the rawdescriptors buffers in
struct usb_device after the initial enumeration.  Before that commit,
the buffers would be deallocated when a device was deauthorized and
reallocated when it was authorized and enumerated.

This means that the locking in the read_descriptors() routine is not
needed, since the buffers it reads will never be reallocated while the
routine is running.  This locking can interfere with user programs
trying to read a hub's descriptors via sysfs while new child devices
of the hub are being initialized, since the hub is locked during this
procedure.

Since the locking in read_descriptors() hasn't been needed for over
nine years, we can remove it.

Reported-and-tested-by: Troels Liebe Bentsen <troels@connectedcars.dk>
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Y9l+wDTRbuZABzsE@rowland.harvard.edu
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
drivers/usb/core/hub.c
drivers/usb/core/sysfs.c