Re: usb devicefs flaw

[Greg KH]

On Sun, Aug 04, 2002 at 08:58:23PM +0200, [e-mail] wrote:
> In drivers/usb/core/usb.c the routine usb_alloc_dev() will
> set the devpath for the root hub to "/".
> Then usb_find_drivers() constructs a filename used by driverfs
> using
> 
>                 sprintf (&interface->dev.bus_id[0], "%s-%s:%d",
>                          dev->bus->bus_name, dev->devpath,
>                          interface->altsetting->bInterfaceNumber);
> 
> This leads to filenames like "00:07.2-/:0" with embedded '/'.

Fix is already in Linus's tree, thanks to David Brownell:
	http://linus.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@1.437.41.12

Original patch sent to linux-usb-devel for this is at:
	http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=102831350007377&w=2
	
thanks,

greg k-h