From ff8973d9468ea07e61ef492dd8c806a6e1a76ac1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phil Endecott Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:37:00 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] USB: Remove restrictions on signal numbers in devio.c Just over a year ago (!) I had this brief exchange with Alan Stern: >> It seems that the signal that can be used with USBDEVFS_DISCSIGNAL and >> in usbdevfs_urb.signr is limited to the real-time signals SIGRTMIN to >> SIGRTMAX. What's the rationale for this restriction? I believe that a >> process can kill() itself with any signal number, can't it? I was >> planning to use SIGIO for usbdevfs_urb.signr and SIGTERM (uncaught) for >> USBDEVFS_DISCSIGNAL. I don't think I'll have a problem with using >> SIGRTMIN+n instead, but I'm curious to know if there's some subtle >> problem with the non-real-time signals that I should be aware of. > > I don't know of any reason for this restriction. Since no-one else could think of a reason either, I offer the following patch which allows any signal to be used with USBDEVFS_DISCSIGNAL and usbdevfs_urb.signr. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott Cc: Alan Stern Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c index aa79280df15..c85e29381a8 100644 --- a/drivers/usb/core/devio.c +++ b/drivers/usb/core/devio.c @@ -981,9 +981,6 @@ static int proc_do_submiturb(struct dev_state *ps, struct usbdevfs_urb *uurb, return -EINVAL; if (!uurb->buffer) return -EINVAL; - if (uurb->signr != 0 && (uurb->signr < SIGRTMIN || - uurb->signr > SIGRTMAX)) - return -EINVAL; if (!(uurb->type == USBDEVFS_URB_TYPE_CONTROL && (uurb->endpoint & ~USB_ENDPOINT_DIR_MASK) == 0)) { ifnum = findintfep(ps->dev, uurb->endpoint); @@ -1401,8 +1398,6 @@ static int proc_disconnectsignal(struct dev_state *ps, void __user *arg) if (copy_from_user(&ds, arg, sizeof(ds))) return -EFAULT; - if (ds.signr != 0 && (ds.signr < SIGRTMIN || ds.signr > SIGRTMAX)) - return -EINVAL; ps->discsignr = ds.signr; ps->disccontext = ds.context; return 0; -- 2.41.1