kernel/drivers/usb/gadget/function/u_ether.h, branch linux-rolling-stable

usb: gadget: f_ncm: Fix net_device lifecycle with device_move

2026-03-19T15:15:06Z

commit ec35c1969650e7cb6c8a91020e568ed46e3551b0 upstream. The network device outlived its parent gadget device during disconnection, resulting in dangling sysfs links and null pointer dereference problems. A prior attempt to solve this by removing SET_NETDEV_DEV entirely [1] was reverted due to power management ordering concerns and a NO-CARRIER regression. A subsequent attempt to defer net_device allocation to bind [2] broke 1:1 mapping between function instance and network device, making it impossible for configfs to report the resolved interface name. This results in a regression where the DHCP server fails on pmOS. Use device_move to reparent the net_device between the gadget device and /sys/devices/virtual/ across bind/unbind cycles. This preserves the network interface across USB reconnection, allowing the DHCP server to retain their binding. Introduce gether_attach_gadget()/gether_detach_gadget() helpers and use __free(detach_gadget) macro to undo attachment on bind failure. The bind_count ensures device_move executes only on the first bind. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/f2a4f9847617a0929d62025748384092e5f35cce.camel@crapouillou.net/ [2] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/795ea759-7eaf-4f78-81f4-01ffbf2d7961@ixit.cz/ Fixes: 40d133d7f542 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: convert to new function interface with backward compatibility") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Kuen-Han Tsai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-f-ncm-revert-v2-7-ea2afbc7d9b2@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "usb: gadget: u_ether: add gether_opts for config caching"

2026-03-19T15:15:06Z

commit 3131c1aff7cdffb96239f06f98e16188cbc2083f upstream. This reverts commit e065c6a7e46c2ee9c677fdbf50035323d2de1215. This commit is being reverted as part of a series-wide revert. By deferring the net_device allocation to the bind() phase, a single function instance will spawn multiple network devices if it is symlinked to multiple USB configurations. This causes regressions for userspace tools (like the postmarketOS DHCP daemon) that rely on reading the interface name (e.g., "usb0") from configfs. Currently, configfs returns the template "usb%d", causing the userspace network setup to fail. Crucially, because this patch breaks the 1:1 mapping between the function instance and the network device, this naming issue cannot simply be patched. Configfs only exposes a single 'ifname' attribute per instance, making it impossible to accurately report the actual interface name when multiple underlying network devices can exist for that single instance. All configurations tied to the same function instance are meant to share a single network device. Revert this change to restore the 1:1 mapping by allocating the network device at the instance level (alloc_inst). Reported-by: David Heidelberg Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/70b558ea-a12e-4170-9b8e-c951131249af@ixit.cz/ Fixes: 56a512a9b410 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: align net_device lifecycle with bind/unbind") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Kuen-Han Tsai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-f-ncm-revert-v2-6-ea2afbc7d9b2@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Revert "usb: gadget: u_ether: Add auto-cleanup helper for freeing net_device"

2026-03-19T15:15:06Z

commit 46662d3a1ad40282ba9f753cccc6f909ec4468cc upstream. This reverts commit 0c0981126b99288ed354d3d414c8a5fd42ac9e25. This commit is being reverted as part of a series-wide revert. By deferring the net_device allocation to the bind() phase, a single function instance will spawn multiple network devices if it is symlinked to multiple USB configurations. This causes regressions for userspace tools (like the postmarketOS DHCP daemon) that rely on reading the interface name (e.g., "usb0") from configfs. Currently, configfs returns the template "usb%d", causing the userspace network setup to fail. Crucially, because this patch breaks the 1:1 mapping between the function instance and the network device, this naming issue cannot simply be patched. Configfs only exposes a single 'ifname' attribute per instance, making it impossible to accurately report the actual interface name when multiple underlying network devices can exist for that single instance. All configurations tied to the same function instance are meant to share a single network device. Revert this change to restore the 1:1 mapping by allocating the network device at the instance level (alloc_inst). Reported-by: David Heidelberg Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-usb/70b558ea-a12e-4170-9b8e-c951131249af@ixit.cz/ Fixes: 56a512a9b410 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: align net_device lifecycle with bind/unbind") Cc: stable Signed-off-by: Kuen-Han Tsai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20260309-f-ncm-revert-v2-4-ea2afbc7d9b2@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: gadget: u_ether: Add auto-cleanup helper for freeing net_device

2026-03-12T11:09:26Z

[ Upstream commit 0c0981126b99288ed354d3d414c8a5fd42ac9e25 ] The net_device in the u_ether framework currently requires explicit calls to unregister and free the device. Introduce gether_unregister_free_netdev() and the corresponding auto-cleanup macro. This ensures that if a net_device is registered, it is properly unregistered and the associated work queue is flushed before the memory is freed. This is a preparatory patch to simplify error handling paths in gadget drivers by removing the need for explicit goto labels for net_device cleanup. Signed-off-by: Kuen-Han Tsai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230-ncm-refactor-v1-2-793e347bc7a7@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 56a512a9b410 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: align net_device lifecycle with bind/unbind") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

usb: gadget: u_ether: add gether_opts for config caching

2026-03-12T11:09:26Z

[ Upstream commit e065c6a7e46c2ee9c677fdbf50035323d2de1215 ] Currently, the net_device is allocated when the function instance is created (e.g., in ncm_alloc_inst()). While this allows userspace to configure the device early, it decouples the net_device lifecycle from the actual USB connection state (bind/unbind). The goal is to defer net_device creation to the bind callback to properly align the lifecycle with its parent gadget device. However, deferring net_device allocation would prevent userspace from configuring parameters (like interface name or MAC address) before the net_device exists. Introduce a new structure, struct gether_opts, associated with the usb_function_instance, to cache settings independently of the net_device. These settings include the interface name pattern, MAC addresses (device and host), queue multiplier, and address assignment type. New helper functions are added: - gether_setup_opts_default(): Initializes struct gether_opts with defaults, including random MAC addresses. - gether_apply_opts(): Applies the cached options from a struct gether_opts to a valid net_device. To expose these options to userspace, new configfs macros (USB_ETHER_OPTS_ITEM and USB_ETHER_OPTS_ATTR_*) are defined in u_ether_configfs.h. These attributes are part of the function instance's configfs group. This refactoring is a preparatory step. It allows the subsequent patch to safely move the net_device allocation from the instance creation phase to the bind phase without losing the ability to pre-configure the interface via configfs. Signed-off-by: Kuen-Han Tsai Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251230-ncm-refactor-v1-1-793e347bc7a7@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Stable-dep-of: 56a512a9b410 ("usb: gadget: f_ncm: align net_device lifecycle with bind/unbind") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin

usb: gadget: add a inline function gether_bitrate()

2023-08-22T12:48:33Z

In function ecm_bitrate(), it is not support report bit rate for super speed plus mode, but it can use same bit rate value defined in ncm and rndis. Add a common inline function gether_bitrate() which report different for all possible speeds, it can be used by ecm, ncm and rndis, also remove old function from them. Signed-off-by: Linyu Yuan Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20230803091053.9714-3-quic_linyyuan@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: gadget: f_ecm: Add suspend/resume and remote wakeup support

2023-03-29T08:27:01Z

When host sends suspend notification to the device, handle the suspend callbacks in the function driver. Depending on the remote wakeup capability the device can either trigger a remote wakeup or wait for the host initiated resume to resume data transfer. Signed-off-by: Elson Roy Serrao Reviewed-by: Thinh Nguyen Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/1679694482-16430-7-git-send-email-quic_eserrao@quicinc.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

usb: gadget: u_ether: support configuring interface names.

2021-01-15T15:08:53Z

This patch allows the administrator to configure the interface name of a function using u_ether (e.g., eem, ncm, rndis). Currently, all such interfaces, regardless of function type, are always called usb0, usb1, etc. This makes it very cumbersome to use more than one such type at a time, because userspace cannnot easily tell the interfaces apart and apply the right configuration to each one. Interface renaming in userspace based on driver doesn't help, because the interfaces all have the same driver. Without this patch, doing this require hacks/workarounds such as setting fixed MAC addresses on the functions, and then renaming by MAC address, or scraping configfs after each interface is created to find out what it is. Setting the interface name is done by writing to the same "ifname" configfs attribute that reports the interface name after the function is bound. The write must contain an interface pattern such as "usb%d" (which will cause the net core to pick the next available interface name starting with "usb"). This patch does not allow writing an exact interface name (as opposed to a pattern) because if the interface already exists at bind time, the bind will fail and the whole gadget will fail to activate. This could be allowed in a future patch. For compatibility with current userspace, when reading an ifname that has not currently been set, the result is still "(unnamed net_device)". Once a write to ifname happens, then reading ifname will return whatever was last written. Tested by configuring an rndis function and an ncm function on the same gadget, and writing "rndis%d" to ifname on the rndis function and "ncm%d" to ifname on the ncm function. When the gadget was bound, the rndis interface was rndis0 and the ncm interface was ncm0. Signed-off-by: Lorenzo Colitti Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210113234222.3272933-1-lorenzo@google.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

USB: gadget: Use the correct style for SPDX License Identifier

2020-05-05T07:58:49Z

This patch corrects the SPDX License Identifier style in header files related to USB peripheral controller drivers. For C header files Documentation/process/license-rules.rst mandates C-like comments (opposed to C source files where C++ style should be used). Changes made by using a script provided by Joe Perches here: https://lkml.org/lkml/2019/2/7/46. Suggested-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Nishad Kamdar Signed-off-by: Felipe Balbi

USB: gadget: function: Remove redundant license text

2017-11-07T14:45:02Z

Now that the SPDX tag is in all USB files, that identifies the license in a specific and legally-defined manner. So the extra GPL text wording can be removed as it is no longer needed at all. This is done on a quest to remove the 700+ different ways that files in the kernel describe the GPL license text. And there's unneeded stuff like the address (sometimes incorrect) for the FSF which is never needed. No copyright headers or other non-license-description text was removed. Cc: Oliver Neukum Cc: Johan Hovold Cc: Jerry Zhang Cc: John Keeping Cc: Krzysztof Opasiak Cc: Abdulhadi Mohamed Cc: Matthew Wilcox Cc: Janusz Dziedzic Acked-by: Felipe Balbi Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart Acked-by: Vincent Pelletier Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman