Re: [RFC PATCH] usb: dwc3: ep0: Fix mem corruption on OUT transfers of more than 512 bytes

[Kishon Vijay Abraham I]

Hi,

On Tuesday 09 June 2015 08:46 PM, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jun 2015, Kishon Vijay Abraham I wrote:
>
> > > Why not just make the bounce buffer size the same as the maxpacket
> > > size?  In other words, 1024 bytes instead of 512, for ep0 on a USB-3
> > > device.
> >
> > It would still be possible for the host to send data more than 1024 bytes no?
>
> Yes.
>
> > When working with DFU gadget, I've seen host sends data upto 4KB. Changing the
> > bounce buffer size might not be able to fix all the cases IMO. The actual fix
> > will be something like [1]
> >
> > [1] -> http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1883688
>
> But with a bounce buffer that's only 512 bytes long, you can never send
> an entire packet's worth of data.  If the bounce buffer is 1024 bytes

for control endpoint, 512 bytes should be sufficient to send entire packet right?
> then you can send the entire first packet.  When that's done, you can
> send the second packet.  And so on.  It wouldn't be quite as fast, but
> for ep0 that shouldn't matter.

right! this is a variant of what I tried to implement in chained TRB [1]. 
$subject tries just to avoid memory corruption instead of actually trying to 
receive all the data.

Thanks
Kishon
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