Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2017 09:27:13 -0800 | From | Dmitry Torokhov <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Input: uinput - fix crash when mixing old and new init style |
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On Wed, Feb 01, 2017 at 09:49:25AM +0100, Benjamin Tissoires wrote: > On Jan 31 2017 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: > > If user tries to initialize uinput device mixing old and new style > > initialization (i.e. using old UI_SET_ABSBIT instead of UI_ABS_SETUP, > > we forget to allocate input->absinfo and will crash when trying to send > > absolute events: > > > > ioctl(ui, UI_DEV_SETUP, &us); > > ioctl(ui, UI_SET_EVBIT, EV_ABS); > > ioctl(ui, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_X); > > ioctl(ui, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_Y); > > ioctl(ui, UI_DEV_CREATE, 0); > > Shouldn't we prevent completely the mix of the 2 versions? If the user > used UI_DEV_SETUP, we should probably prevent the use of UI_SET_ABSBIT > afterwards, or at least warn it somehow.
Why? If user does not wish to set up parameters of an axis then just using UI_SET_ABSBIT is fine. In fact, I think it would be weird if we allowed all UI_SET_*BIT except for ABS.
> > But the patch in itself doesn't hurt, so: > Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Thanks.
-- Dmitry
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