[PATCH v2 1/2] USB: make to_usb_driver() use container_of_const()

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Nov 13 2024 - 09:05:14 EST


Turns out that we have some const pointers being passed to
to_usb_driver() but were not catching this. Change the macro to
properly propagate the const-ness of the pointer so that we will notice
when we try to write to memory that we shouldn't be writing to.

This requires fixing up the usb_match_dynamic_id() function as well,
because it can handle a const * to struct usb_driver.

Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Grant Grundler <grundler@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Yajun Deng <yajun.deng@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: Douglas Anderson <dianders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
v2: reordered patches, goes on top of series submitted at https://lore.kernel.org/r/2024111322-kindly-finalist-d247@gregkh

drivers/usb/core/driver.c | 4 ++--
include/linux/usb.h | 2 +-
2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
index 9ea955a3d115..bc5c561bdbd5 100644
--- a/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
+++ b/drivers/usb/core/driver.c
@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ static void usb_free_dynids(struct usb_driver *usb_drv)
}

static const struct usb_device_id *usb_match_dynamic_id(struct usb_interface *intf,
- struct usb_driver *drv)
+ const struct usb_driver *drv)
{
struct usb_dynid *dynid;

@@ -890,7 +890,7 @@ static int usb_device_match(struct device *dev, const struct device_driver *drv)

} else if (is_usb_interface(dev)) {
struct usb_interface *intf;
- struct usb_driver *usb_drv;
+ const struct usb_driver *usb_drv;
const struct usb_device_id *id;

/* device drivers never match interfaces */
diff --git a/include/linux/usb.h b/include/linux/usb.h
index b66b1af3e439..7a9e96f9d886 100644
--- a/include/linux/usb.h
+++ b/include/linux/usb.h
@@ -1243,7 +1243,7 @@ struct usb_driver {
unsigned int disable_hub_initiated_lpm:1;
unsigned int soft_unbind:1;
};
-#define to_usb_driver(d) container_of(d, struct usb_driver, driver)
+#define to_usb_driver(d) container_of_const(d, struct usb_driver, driver)

/**
* struct usb_device_driver - identifies USB device driver to usbcore
--
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