linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] HID: core: Correctly handle ReportSize being zero

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Date:   Tue, 1 Sep 2020 11:34:37 +0200
From:   Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>,
        "open list:HID CORE LAYER" <linux-input@...r.kernel.org>,
        lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "3.8+" <stable@...r.kernel.org>, kernel-team@...roid.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] HID: core: Correctly handle ReportSize being zero

On Tue, Sep 1, 2020 at 10:14 AM Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org> wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Aug 2020, Marc Zyngier wrote:
>
> > It appears that a ReportSize value of zero is legal, even if a bit
> > non-sensical. Most of the HID code seems to handle that gracefully,
> > except when computing the total size in bytes. When fed as input to
> > memset, this leads to some funky outcomes.
> >
> > Detect the corner case and correctly compute the size.
> >
> > Cc: stable@...r.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@...nel.org>
>
> Thanks Marc; Benjamin will be pushing this patch through his regression
> testing machinery, and if all is good, I'll push it for 5.9-rc still.

Test results were good. I have now pushed this patch to for-5.9/upstream-fixes

Cheers,
Benjamin

>
> --
> Jiri Kosina
> SUSE Labs
>