[Qemu-discuss] libusb and qemu userspace emulation

[Gábor, Wacha]

Dear community,

I am using qemu (git HEAD version) for an educational/research project.
In this project, the qemu Linux userspace emulation is used.

One of my simple test programs connects to an USB device with libusb, 
and does some control and interrupt transfers.
Running this program on an x86_64 with qemu microblazeel Linux userspace 
emulation, the program makes the following log outputs:

Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0x41045508
Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0xffffffff8004550f
Unsupported ioctl: cmd=0xffffffff802c550a

etc.

That is because qemu does not yet support the USBDEVFS_GETDRIVER, 
USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB, etc. ioctls.
So I've implemented them. With my implementation every needed ioctl 
works except the USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB ioctl.

The reason is: for the SUBMITURB ctl, the usbdevfs_urb struct is used, 
which has two void * members. On my 64 bit host these pointers are 8 
bytes long, but on the 32 bit guest, the pointers are only 4 bytes long. 
That means that the size of this usbdevfs_urb struct differs on the host 
and the guest system.

Since in linux/usbdevice_fs.h the USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB ioctl is defined 
the following way:
#define USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB         _IOR('U', 10, struct usbdevfs_urb)

and the _IOR macro encodes the size of the struct usbdevfs_urb in the 
calculated value of USBDEVFS_SUBMITURB, the ioctl code differs on the 64 
bit host and the 32 bit guest:
On the guest I have: 0x802c550a
On the host I have: 0x8038550a

Since there are two different codes to the same ioctl, the qemu linux 
userspace emulator does not recognize the io call.

Is there a way to solve this problem in qemu?

Regards,

Gabor Wacha
PhD student at Department of Measurement and Information Systems,
Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary