linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] HID: wacom: Use ktime_t rather than int when dealing with timestamps

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Message-ID: <CANRwn3R-XbfB+mP9AQ-J7R_19jLi4eS3MhswaWjL+LCEih-7pg@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 21 Jun 2023 08:18:08 -0700
From:   Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com>
To:     linux-input@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     Ping Cheng <pinglinux@...il.com>,
        Aaron Armstrong Skomra <skomra@...il.com>,
        Joshua Dickens <Joshua@...hua-dickens.com>,
        Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@...-t.net>,
        Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@...om.com>, stable@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] HID: wacom: Use ktime_t rather than int when dealing
 with timestamps

Following up since no action seems to have been taken on this patch yet.

On Thu, Jun 8, 2023 at 2:38 PM Jason Gerecke <killertofu@...il.com> wrote:
>
> Code which interacts with timestamps needs to use the ktime_t type
> returned by functions like ktime_get. The int type does not offer
> enough space to store these values, and attempting to use it is a
> recipe for problems. In this particular case, overflows would occur
> when calculating/storing timestamps leading to incorrect values being
> reported to userspace. In some cases these bad timestamps cause input
> handling in userspace to appear hung.
>
> Link: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/901
> Fixes: 17d793f3ed53 ("HID: wacom: insert timestamp to packed Bluetooth (BT) events")
> CC: stable@...r.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@...om.com>
> ---
> v2: Use div_u64 to perform division to deal with ARC and ARM architectures
>     (as found by the kernel test robot)
>
>  drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c | 6 +++---
>  drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c b/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c
> index 2ccf838371343..174bf03908d7c 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c
> @@ -1314,7 +1314,7 @@ static void wacom_intuos_pro2_bt_pen(struct wacom_wac *wacom)
>         struct input_dev *pen_input = wacom->pen_input;
>         unsigned char *data = wacom->data;
>         int number_of_valid_frames = 0;
> -       int time_interval = 15000000;
> +       ktime_t time_interval = 15000000;
>         ktime_t time_packet_received = ktime_get();
>         int i;
>
> @@ -1348,7 +1348,7 @@ static void wacom_intuos_pro2_bt_pen(struct wacom_wac *wacom)
>         if (number_of_valid_frames) {
>                 if (wacom->hid_data.time_delayed)
>                         time_interval = ktime_get() - wacom->hid_data.time_delayed;
> -               time_interval /= number_of_valid_frames;
> +               time_interval = div_u64(time_interval, number_of_valid_frames);
>                 wacom->hid_data.time_delayed = time_packet_received;
>         }
>
> @@ -1359,7 +1359,7 @@ static void wacom_intuos_pro2_bt_pen(struct wacom_wac *wacom)
>                 bool range = frame[0] & 0x20;
>                 bool invert = frame[0] & 0x10;
>                 int frames_number_reversed = number_of_valid_frames - i - 1;
> -               int event_timestamp = time_packet_received - frames_number_reversed * time_interval;
> +               ktime_t event_timestamp = time_packet_received - frames_number_reversed * time_interval;
>
>                 if (!valid)
>                         continue;
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h b/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h
> index 1a40bb8c5810c..ee21bb260f22f 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h
> +++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h
> @@ -324,7 +324,7 @@ struct hid_data {
>         int ps_connected;
>         bool pad_input_event_flag;
>         unsigned short sequence_number;
> -       int time_delayed;
> +       ktime_t time_delayed;
>  };
>
>  struct wacom_remote_data {
> --
> 2.41.0
>