usbfs: Add a new disconnect-and-claim ioctl (v2)

Apps which deal with devices which also have a kernel driver, need to do
the following:
1) Check which driver is attached, so as to not detach the wrong driver
   (ie detaching usbfs while another instance of the app is using the device)
2) Detach the kernel driver
3) Claim the interface

Where moving from one step to the next for both 1-2 and 2-3 consists of
a (small) race window. So currently such apps are racy and people just live
with it.

This patch adds a new ioctl which makes it possible for apps to do this
in a race free manner. For flexibility apps can choose to:
1) Specify the driver to disconnect
2) Specify to disconnect any driver except for the one named by the app
3) Disconnect any driver

Note that if there is no driver attached, the ioctl will just act like the
regular claim-interface ioctl, this is by design, as returning an error for
this condition would open a new bag of race-conditions.

Changes in v2:
-Fix indentation of if blocks where the condition spans multiple lines

Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h b/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h
index 3b74666be027..4abe28e41cbc 100644
--- a/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h
+++ b/include/linux/usbdevice_fs.h
@@ -131,6 +131,19 @@ struct usbdevfs_hub_portinfo {
 #define USBDEVFS_CAP_NO_PACKET_SIZE_LIM         0x04
 #define USBDEVFS_CAP_BULK_SCATTER_GATHER        0x08
 
+/* USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT_CLAIM flags & struct */
+
+/* disconnect-and-claim if the driver matches the driver field */
+#define USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT_CLAIM_IF_DRIVER     0x01
+/* disconnect-and-claim except when the driver matches the driver field */
+#define USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT_CLAIM_EXCEPT_DRIVER 0x02
+
+struct usbdevfs_disconnect_claim {
+        unsigned int interface;
+        unsigned int flags;
+        char driver[USBDEVFS_MAXDRIVERNAME + 1];
+};
+
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
 #include <linux/compat.h>
@@ -211,5 +224,6 @@ struct usbdevfs_ioctl32 {
 #define USBDEVFS_CLAIM_PORT        _IOR('U', 24, unsigned int)
 #define USBDEVFS_RELEASE_PORT      _IOR('U', 25, unsigned int)
 #define USBDEVFS_GET_CAPABILITIES  _IOR('U', 26, __u32)
+#define USBDEVFS_DISCONNECT_CLAIM  _IOR('U', 27, struct usbdevfs_disconnect_claim)
 
 #endif /* _LINUX_USBDEVICE_FS_H */