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'roccat', 'upstream' and 'upstream-fixes' into for-linus
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Per the HID Specification, Feature reports must be sent and received on
the Configuration endpoint (EP 0) through the Set_Report/Get_Report
interfaces. This patch adds two ioctls to hidraw to set and get feature
reports to and from the device. Modifications were made to hidraw and
usbhid.
New hidraw ioctls:
HIDIOCSFEATURE - Perform a Set_Report transfer of a Feature report.
HIDIOCGFEATURE - Perform a Get_Report transfer of a Feature report.
Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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hidraw_disconnect() first sets an entry in hidraw_table to NULL
and calls device_destroy() afterwards. The thereby called
hidraw_release() tries to read this already cleared value resulting
in never removing any device from the list.
This got fixed by changing the order of events.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Setting of the return value of hidraw_read() uses the += operator when
= is more appropriate. There is no case where ret can be anything
other than zero when the assignment is made, making = equivalent to
+= and much more clear.
Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Added the ioctl function to the compat_ioctl pointer in the file_operations
struct. Before this, some ioctls would fail for 32-bit apps on 64-bit systems.
Signed-off-by: Alan Ott <alan@signal11.us>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Neaten current uses of dev_<level> by adding and using
hid specific hid_<level> macros.
Convert existing uses of dev_<level> uses to hid_<level>.
Convert hid-pidff printk uses to hid_<level>.
Remove err_hid and use hid_err instead.
Add missing newlines to logging messages where necessary.
Coalesce format strings.
Add and use pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
Other miscellaneous changes:
Add const struct hid_device * argument to hid-core functions
extract() and implement() so hid_<level> can be used by them.
Fix bad indentation in hid-core hid_input_field function
that calls extract() function above.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Instead of exposing the guts of hid->ll_driver relationship to HID
sub-drivers provide these helpers to encapsulate the details.
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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The big kernel lock has been removed from all these files at some point,
leaving only the #include.
Remove this too as a cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* 'llseek' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/bkl:
vfs: make no_llseek the default
vfs: don't use BKL in default_llseek
llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
libfs: use generic_file_llseek for simple_attr
mac80211: disallow seeks in minstrel debug code
lirc: make chardev nonseekable
viotape: use noop_llseek
raw: use explicit llseek file operations
ibmasmfs: use generic_file_llseek
spufs: use llseek in all file operations
arm/omap: use generic_file_llseek in iommu_debug
lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
net/wireless: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
drm: use noop_llseek
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There is a window between hidraw_table check and its dereference.
In that window, the device may be unplugged and removed form the
system and we will then dereference NULL.
Lock that place properly so that either we get NULL and jump out or we
can work with real pointer.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.
The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.
New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time. Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.
The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.
Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.
Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.
===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
// but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}
@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
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nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}
@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
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*off += E
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func(..., off, ...)
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E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
*off = E
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*off += E
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func(..., off, ...)
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E = *off
)
...+>
}
@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}
@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
};
@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.llseek = llseek_f,
...
};
@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.read = read_f,
...
};
@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
...
};
@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.open = open_f,
...
};
// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};
@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};
// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};
// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};
// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};
@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+ .llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};
// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
.write = write_f,
.read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};
@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffffa0f0a625>] hidraw_write+0x3b/0x116 [hid]
[...]
This is reproducible by disconnecting the device while userspace writes
to dev node in a loop and doesn't check return values in order to exit
the loop.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffffa02c66b4>] hidraw_ioctl+0xfc/0x32c [hid]
[...]
This is reproducible by disconnecting the device while userspace does
ioctl in a loop and doesn't check return values in order to exit the
loop.
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Removed unused variable from hidraw_read.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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'hid-suspend' into for-linus
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Conflicts:
drivers/hid/hid-wacom.c
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Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files. percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.
percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed. Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability. As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.
http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py
The script does the followings.
* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
only the necessary includes are there. ie. if only gfp is used,
gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.
* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
to its surrounding. It's put in the include block which contains
core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
doesn't seem to be any matching order.
* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
file.
The conversion was done in the following steps.
1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
and ~3000 slab.h inclusions. The script emitted errors for ~400
files.
2. Each error was manually checked. Some didn't need the inclusion,
some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
embedding .c file was more appropriate for others. This step added
inclusions to around 150 files.
3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.
4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.
5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell. Most gfp.h
inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros. Each
slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
necessary.
6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.
7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
were fixed. CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).
* x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
* powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
* sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
* ia64 SMP allmodconfig
* s390 SMP allmodconfig
* alpha SMP allmodconfig
* um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig
8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
a separate patch and serve as bisection point.
Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
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We don't need to shout loudly when device gets disconnected
while hidraw node has been open, as this is properly handled
in disconnect() and protected by minors_lock already.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Remove BKL from hidraw, which is possible through fixing the
locking of minors_lock mutex properly -- it is now used to
guard all accessess to hidraw_table[], preventing it to becoming
NULL unexpectedly by unregistering the device.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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In commit 2da31939a42 ("Bluetooth: Implement raw output support for HIDP
layer"), support for Bluetooth hid_output_raw_report was added, but it
pushes the data to the intr socket instead of the ctrl one. This has been
fixed by 6bf8268f9a91f1 ("Bluetooth: Use the control channel for raw HID reports")
Still, it is necessary to distinguish whether the report in question should be
either FEATURE or OUTPUT. For this, we have to extend the generic HID API,
so that hid_output_raw_report() callback provides means to specify this
value so that it can be passed down to lower level hardware drivers (currently
Bluetooth and USB).
Based on original patch by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
HID: fix possible deadlock in hidraw_read
HID: fix kerneldoc comment for hid_input_report()
HID: add __init/__exit macros to twinhan.c
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If the loop in hidraw_read() loops more than once, then we might
end up trying to acquire already locked mutex, casuing a deadlock.
Reported-by: iceberg <iceberg@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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hidraw accepts any devices, no matter if the device has
already been claimed by other HID driver (hid-input, hidraw), and
this is intended to stay. Fix up the comment to reflect reality.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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There were 2 places that returned directly instead of releasing their
locks. I sent a fix for this file earlier but ended up missing these
spots. I think what happened is that I have improved my checker script
since then... Or maybe I just screwed up.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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This uses the USB busy mechanism for aggessive autosuspend of USB
HID devices. It autosuspends all opened devices supporting remote wakeup
after a timeout unless
- output is being done to the device
- a key is being held down (remote wakeup isn't triggered upon key release)
- LED(s) are lit
- hiddev is opened
As in the current driver closed devices will be autosuspended even if they
don't support remote wakeup.
The patch is quite large because output to devices is done in hard interrupt
context meaning a lot a queuing and locking had to be touched. The LED stuff
has been solved by means of a simple counter. Additions to the generic HID code
could be avoided. In addition it now covers hidraw. It contains an embryonic
version of an API to let the generic HID code tell the lower levels which
capabilities with respect to power management are needed.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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We can't return immediately because lock_kernel() is held.
Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Conflicts:
drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
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The hidraw subsystem has a bug that prevents the close syscall from ever
reaching the low level driver, leading to a resource leak. Fix by replacing
postdecrement with predecrement.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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We need to properly set parent of the hidraw device (which is the
corresponding physical device itself) in order to hidraw devices not
end up under virtual device tree.
Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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The hiddev interface provides ioctl() calls which can be used
to obtain phys and raw name of the underlying device.
Add the corresponding support also into hidraw.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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As open needs to sleep hidraw was wrong to call it with a spinlock held.
Furthermore, open can of course fail which needs to be handled.
Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Add omitted unlock_kernel() to hidraw_ioctl().
Added in 979c407e3b89b606e810fa494ef316896eadbfad
(HID: Push down BKL into ioctl handler in hidraw).
Corresponing sparse warning:
drivers/hid/hidraw.c:267:9: warning: context imbalance in 'hidraw_ioctl': wrong count at exit
drivers/hid/hidraw.c:267:9: context 'kernel_lock': wanted 0, got 1
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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hidraw_exit() marked as __exit is called from __init function
from HID core. Remove the section placement from that function.
Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The bound check on the buffer length
if (count > HID_MIN_BUFFER_SIZE)
is of course incorrent, the proper check is
if (count > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)
Fix it.
Reported-by: Jerry Ryle <jerry@mindtribe.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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Next step for complete hid bus, this patch includes:
- call parser either from probe or from hid-core if there is no probe.
- add ll_driver structure and centralize some stuff there (open, close...)
- split and merge usb_hid_configure and hid_probe into several functions
to allow hooks/fixes between them
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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hidraw_release() forgot to free the linked list structure, causing memory
leak.
Reported-by: Juan Marcos Diez Esteban <juan_m_diez@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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In this case I simply wrapped it as code review suggests the locking
already terminally broken and I didn't want to make it first. See added
comment
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.
The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Fix bogus copying of data into userspace when HIDIOCGRDESC is issued.
HID-transport layer makes sure that dev->hid->rdesc is not larger than
HID_MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE.
Noticed-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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It looks like hidraw_connect() is leaking memory in case of failure.
Also it should return -ENOMEM when kzalloc fails.
Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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hidraw is an interface that is going to obsolete hiddev one
day.
Many userland applications are using libusb instead of using
kernel-provided hiddev interface. This is caused by various
reasons - the HID parser in kernel doesn't handle all the
HID hardware on the planet properly, some devices might require
its own specific quirks/drivers, etc.
hiddev interface tries to do its best to parse all the received
reports properly, and presents only parsed usages into userspace.
This is however often not enough, and that's the reason why
many userland applications just don't use hiddev at all, and
rather use libusb to read raw USB events and process them on
their own.
Another drawback of hiddev is that it is USB-specific.
hidraw interface provides userspace readers with really raw HID
reports, no matter what the low-level transport layer is (USB/BT),
and gives the userland applications all the freedom to process
the HID reports in a way they wish to.
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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