linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without absinfo

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Date:   Wed, 1 Feb 2017 12:07:22 +0100 (CET)
From:   Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
To:     Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>
cc:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Input: refuse to register absolute devices without
 absinfo

On Tue, 31 Jan 2017, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:

> If device is supposed to send absolute events (i.e. EV_ABS bit is set in
> dev->evbit) but dev->absinfo is not allocated, then the driver has done
> something wrong, and we should not register such device. Otherwise we'll
> crash later, when driver tries to send absolute event.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>

Acked-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>

Thanks.

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs