Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754270Ab0IAB4j (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:56:39 -0400 Received: from adelie.canonical.com ([91.189.90.139]:41663 "EHLO adelie.canonical.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753445Ab0IAB4b (ORCPT ); Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:56:31 -0400 From: Chase Douglas To: Jiri Kosina Cc: Michael Poole , Henrik Rydberg , Tejun Heo , linux-input@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH 1/7 v3] HID: magicmouse: don't allow hidinput to initialize the device Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2010 21:56:18 -0400 Message-Id: <1283306184-28833-2-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.1 In-Reply-To: <1283306184-28833-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> References: <1283306184-28833-1-git-send-email-chase.douglas@canonical.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1939 Lines: 50 From: Chase Douglas The driver listens only for raw events from the device. If we allow the hidinput layer to initialize, we can hit NULL pointer dereferences in the hidinput layer because disconnecting only removes the hidinput devices from the hid device while leaving the hid fields configured. Signed-off-by: Chase Douglas Acked-by: Michael Poole --- drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c | 13 +++++++++---- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c b/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c index 319b0e5..d38b529 100644 --- a/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-magicmouse.c @@ -404,15 +404,20 @@ static int magicmouse_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, goto err_free; } - ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT); + /* When registering a hid device, one of hidinput, hidraw, or hiddev + * subsystems must claim the device. We are bypassing hidinput due to + * our raw event processing, and hidraw and hiddev may not claim the + * device. We get around this by telling hid_hw_start that input has + * claimed the device already, and then flipping the bit back. + */ + hdev->claimed = HID_CLAIMED_INPUT; + ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT & ~HID_CONNECT_HIDINPUT); + hdev->claimed &= ~HID_CLAIMED_INPUT; if (ret) { dev_err(&hdev->dev, "magicmouse hw start failed\n"); goto err_free; } - /* we are handling the input ourselves */ - hidinput_disconnect(hdev); - report = hid_register_report(hdev, HID_INPUT_REPORT, TOUCH_REPORT_ID); if (!report) { dev_err(&hdev->dev, "unable to register touch report\n"); -- 1.7.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/