Re: [PATCH] HID: wacom: Have wacom_tpc_irq guard against possible NULL dereference

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2017, Jason Gerecke wrote:

> The following Smatch complaint was generated in response to commit
> 2a6cdbd ("HID: wacom: Introduce new 'touch_input' device"):
> 
>     drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c:1586 wacom_tpc_irq()
>              error: we previously assumed 'wacom->touch_input' could be null (see line 1577)
> 
> The 'touch_input' and 'pen_input' variables point to the 'struct input_dev'
> used for relaying touch and pen events to userspace, respectively. If a
> device does not have a touch interface or pen interface, the associated
> input variable is NULL. The 'wacom_tpc_irq()' function is responsible for
> forwarding input reports to a more-specific IRQ handler function. An
> unknown report could theoretically be mistaken as e.g. a touch report
> on a device which does not have a touch interface. This can be prevented
> by only calling the pen/touch functions are called when the pen/touch
> pointers are valid.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@xxxxxxxxx>

Applied to for-4.12/upstream-fixes branch with these tags:

    Fixes: 2a6cdbd ("HID: wacom: Introduce new 'touch_input' device")
    Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@xxxxxxxxx>
    Reviewed-by: Ping Cheng <ping.cheng@xxxxxxxxx>
    Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

-- 
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs

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