On Thu Dec 11 2014 at 7:31:43 AM Benjamin Tissoires
<benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Dec 11 2014 or thereabouts, Peter Wu wrote:
> > Balance a hid_device_io_start() call with hid_device_io_stop() in the
> > error path. This avoids processing of HID reports when the probe fails
> > which possibly leads to invalid memory access in hid_device_probe() as
> > report_enum->report_id_hash might already be freed via
> > hid_close_report().
>
> Well spotted too!
>
> >
> > hid_set_drvdata() is called before wtp_allocate, be consistent and clear
> > drvdata too on the error path of wtp_allocate.
>
> This is not strictly speaking required. We will have a dangling value in
> hdev->private_data, but this should be overwritten before the next use.
>
> Anyway, it makes sense to clean up after a failure, so the patch is
> Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > Hi Andrew,
> >
> > There are few users of hid_device_io_start/stop, this is the first one
> > to get start/stop out of sync. Should the comment of
> > hid_device_io_start() be updated to ensure that hid_device_io_stop()
> > gets called before probe() returns? Or should the hid-core be changed to
> > handle this out-of-sync issue:
I do not have a strong opinion on this, and will defer to others. The
reason I needed to communicate during probe() was to have the driver
probe the actual device for details. In this use case, I would be okay
to disable IO at the end of probe() and have it become reenabled via
the normal (default) methods.
-andrew
> >
> > if (ret) {
> > if (hdev->io_started))
> > down(&hdev->driver_input_lock);
> > hid_close_report(hdev);
> > hdev->driver = NULL;
> > }
> >
> > Is my observation correct or not that HID reports can arrive during
> > hid_close_report() when io_started == true?
> >
> > Kind regards,
> > Peter
> > ---
> > drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c | 4 +++-
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c b/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c
> > index 4292cc3..2f420c0 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-logitech-hidpp.c
> > @@ -1121,7 +1121,7 @@ static int hidpp_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
> > if (hidpp->quirks & HIDPP_QUIRK_CLASS_WTP) {
> > ret = wtp_allocate(hdev, id);
> > if (ret)
> > - return ret;
> > + goto wtp_allocate_fail;
> > }
> >
> > INIT_WORK(&hidpp->work, delayed_work_cb);
> > @@ -1141,6 +1141,7 @@ static int hidpp_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id)
> > if (id->group != HID_GROUP_LOGITECH_DJ_DEVICE) {
> > if (!connected) {
> > hid_err(hdev, "Device not connected");
> > + hid_device_io_stop(hdev);
> > goto hid_parse_fail;
> > }
> >
> > @@ -1186,6 +1187,7 @@ hid_hw_start_fail:
> > hid_parse_fail:
> > cancel_work_sync(&hidpp->work);
> > mutex_destroy(&hidpp->send_mutex);
> > +wtp_allocate_fail:
> > hid_set_drvdata(hdev, NULL);
> > return ret;
> > }
> > --
> > 2.1.3
> >
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