Kernel patch to work around deficiencies in usbmon

Pete Zaitcev zaitcev at redhat.com
Mon Jul 11 05:09:48 UTC 2005


On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 00:56:24 -0400, Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com> wrote:

> If ->iobuf is a ptr to 31 bytes, and bcb starts 4 bytes in, won't this
> be writing to the 35th byte of iobuf ?

The buffer is 64 bytes big (US_IOBUF_SIZE).

I thought about the coding aspect and shown the patch on linux-usb-devel,
so I expected your decision about the basic idea of carrying a temporary
patch in Fedora kernel, rather than the byte-pushing aspect.

-- Pete




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