USB: add binary API to usbmon
This patch adds a new, "binary" API in addition to the old, text API usbmon had before. The new API allows for less CPU use, and it allows to capture all data from a packet where old API only captured 32 bytes at most. There are some limitations and conditions to this, e.g. in case someone constructs a URB with 1GB of data, it's not likely to be captured, because even the huge buffers of the new reader are finite. Nonetheless, I expect this new capability to capture all data for all real life scenarios. The downside is, a special user mode application is required where cat(1) worked before. I have sample code at http://people.redhat.com/zaitcev/linux/ and Paolo Abeni is working on patching libpcap. This patch was initially written by Paolo and later I tweaked it, and we had a little back-and-forth. So this is a jointly authored patch, but I am submitting this I am responsible for the bugs. Signed-off-by: Paolo Abeni <paolo.abeni@email.it> Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ that the file size is not excessive for your favourite editor.
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The '1t' type data consists of a stream of events, such as URB submission,
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URB callback, submission error. Every event is a text line, which consists
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of whitespace separated words. The number of position of words may depend
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of whitespace separated words. The number or position of words may depend
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on the event type, but there is a set of words, common for all types.
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Here is the list of words, from left to right:
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@@ -170,4 +170,152 @@ dd65f0e8 4128379808 C Bo:005:02 0 31 >
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* Raw binary format and API
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TBD
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The overall architecture of the API is about the same as the one above,
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only the events are delivered in binary format. Each event is sent in
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the following structure (its name is made up, so that we can refer to it):
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struct usbmon_packet {
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u64 id; /* 0: URB ID - from submission to callback */
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unsigned char type; /* 8: Same as text; extensible. */
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unsigned char xfer_type; /* ISO (0), Intr, Control, Bulk (3) */
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unsigned char epnum; /* Endpoint number and transfer direction */
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unsigned char devnum; /* Device address */
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u16 busnum; /* 12: Bus number */
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char flag_setup; /* 14: Same as text */
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char flag_data; /* 15: Same as text; Binary zero is OK. */
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s64 ts_sec; /* 16: gettimeofday */
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s32 ts_usec; /* 24: gettimeofday */
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int status; /* 28: */
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unsigned int length; /* 32: Length of data (submitted or actual) */
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unsigned int len_cap; /* 36: Delivered length */
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unsigned char setup[8]; /* 40: Only for Control 'S' */
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}; /* 48 bytes total */
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These events can be received from a character device by reading with read(2),
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with an ioctl(2), or by accessing the buffer with mmap.
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The character device is usually called /dev/usbmonN, where N is the USB bus
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number. Number zero (/dev/usbmon0) is special and means "all buses".
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However, this feature is not implemented yet. Note that specific naming
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policy is set by your Linux distribution.
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If you create /dev/usbmon0 by hand, make sure that it is owned by root
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and has mode 0600. Otherwise, unpriviledged users will be able to snoop
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keyboard traffic.
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The following ioctl calls are available, with MON_IOC_MAGIC 0x92:
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MON_IOCQ_URB_LEN, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 1)
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This call returns the length of data in the next event. Note that majority of
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events contain no data, so if this call returns zero, it does not mean that
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no events are available.
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MON_IOCG_STATS, defined as _IOR(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 3, struct mon_bin_stats)
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The argument is a pointer to the following structure:
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struct mon_bin_stats {
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u32 queued;
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u32 dropped;
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};
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The member "queued" refers to the number of events currently queued in the
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buffer (and not to the number of events processed since the last reset).
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The member "dropped" is the number of events lost since the last call
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to MON_IOCG_STATS.
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MON_IOCT_RING_SIZE, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 4)
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This call sets the buffer size. The argument is the size in bytes.
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The size may be rounded down to the next chunk (or page). If the requested
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size is out of [unspecified] bounds for this kernel, the call fails with
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-EINVAL.
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MON_IOCQ_RING_SIZE, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 5)
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This call returns the current size of the buffer in bytes.
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MON_IOCX_GET, defined as _IOW(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 6, struct mon_get_arg)
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This call waits for events to arrive if none were in the kernel buffer,
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then returns the first event. Its argument is a pointer to the following
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structure:
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struct mon_get_arg {
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struct usbmon_packet *hdr;
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void *data;
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size_t alloc; /* Length of data (can be zero) */
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};
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Before the call, hdr, data, and alloc should be filled. Upon return, the area
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pointed by hdr contains the next event structure, and the data buffer contains
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the data, if any. The event is removed from the kernel buffer.
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MON_IOCX_MFETCH, defined as _IOWR(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 7, struct mon_mfetch_arg)
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This ioctl is primarily used when the application accesses the buffer
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with mmap(2). Its argument is a pointer to the following structure:
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struct mon_mfetch_arg {
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uint32_t *offvec; /* Vector of events fetched */
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uint32_t nfetch; /* Number of events to fetch (out: fetched) */
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uint32_t nflush; /* Number of events to flush */
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};
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The ioctl operates in 3 stages.
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First, it removes and discards up to nflush events from the kernel buffer.
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The actual number of events discarded is returned in nflush.
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Second, it waits for an event to be present in the buffer, unless the pseudo-
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device is open with O_NONBLOCK.
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Third, it extracts up to nfetch offsets into the mmap buffer, and stores
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them into the offvec. The actual number of event offsets is stored into
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the nfetch.
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MON_IOCH_MFLUSH, defined as _IO(MON_IOC_MAGIC, 8)
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This call removes a number of events from the kernel buffer. Its argument
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is the number of events to remove. If the buffer contains fewer events
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than requested, all events present are removed, and no error is reported.
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This works when no events are available too.
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FIONBIO
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The ioctl FIONBIO may be implemented in the future, if there's a need.
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In addition to ioctl(2) and read(2), the special file of binary API can
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be polled with select(2) and poll(2). But lseek(2) does not work.
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* Memory-mapped access of the kernel buffer for the binary API
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The basic idea is simple:
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To prepare, map the buffer by getting the current size, then using mmap(2).
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Then, execute a loop similar to the one written in pseudo-code below:
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struct mon_mfetch_arg fetch;
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struct usbmon_packet *hdr;
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int nflush = 0;
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for (;;) {
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fetch.offvec = vec; // Has N 32-bit words
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fetch.nfetch = N; // Or less than N
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fetch.nflush = nflush;
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ioctl(fd, MON_IOCX_MFETCH, &fetch); // Process errors, too
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nflush = fetch.nfetch; // This many packets to flush when done
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for (i = 0; i < nflush; i++) {
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hdr = (struct ubsmon_packet *) &mmap_area[vec[i]];
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if (hdr->type == '@') // Filler packet
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continue;
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caddr_t data = &mmap_area[vec[i]] + 64;
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process_packet(hdr, data);
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}
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}
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Thus, the main idea is to execute only one ioctl per N events.
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Although the buffer is circular, the returned headers and data do not cross
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the end of the buffer, so the above pseudo-code does not need any gathering.
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