USB: core: Change usb_get_device_descriptor() API
commit de28e469 upstream. The usb_get_device_descriptor() routine reads the device descriptor from the udev device and stores it directly in udev->descriptor. This interface is error prone, because the USB subsystem expects in-memory copies of a device's descriptors to be immutable once the device has been initialized. The interface is changed so that the device descriptor is left in a kmalloc-ed buffer, not copied into the usb_device structure. A pointer to the buffer is returned to the caller, who is then responsible for kfree-ing it. The corresponding changes needed in the various callers are fairly small. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/d0111bb6-56c1-4f90-adf2-6cfe152f6561@rowland.harvard.edu Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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