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| author | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-10-28 18:15:02 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2011-11-16 15:00:31 +0100 |
| commit | 6da7066906e977d42104a859c490f5f9a300488c (patch) | |
| tree | a3dd189b80691d307840697da5cc68e6a75edfff /drivers/hid/hid-input.c | |
| parent | e46e927b9b7e8d95526e69322855243882b7e1a3 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6da7066906e977d42104a859c490f5f9a300488c.tar.gz lwn-6da7066906e977d42104a859c490f5f9a300488c.zip | |
HID: ignore absolute values which don't fit between logical min and max
Linux should ignore values outside logical min/max range, as they are not
meaningful. This is what at least some of other OSes do, and it also makes
sense (currently the value gets misinterpreted larger up the stack).
Reported-by: Denilson Figueiredo de Sá <denilsonsa@gmail.com>
Tested-by: Denilson Figueiredo de Sá <denilsonsa@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/hid/hid-input.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | drivers/hid/hid-input.c | 7 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-input.c b/drivers/hid/hid-input.c index f333139d1a48..b7b0d55c0ede 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-input.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-input.c @@ -822,6 +822,13 @@ void hidinput_hid_event(struct hid_device *hid, struct hid_field *field, struct return; } + /* Ignore absolute values that are out of bounds */ + if ((usage->type == EV_ABS && (value < field->logical_minimum || + value > field->logical_maximum))) { + dbg_hid("Ignoring out-of-range value %x\n", value); + return; + } + /* report the usage code as scancode if the key status has changed */ if (usage->type == EV_KEY && !!test_bit(usage->code, input->key) != value) input_event(input, EV_MSC, MSC_SCAN, usage->hid); |