This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled HID: holtek: fix mouse probing to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: hid-holtek-fix-mouse-probing.patch and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. >From 93a2207c254ca102ebbdae47b00f19bbfbfa7ecd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:51:20 +0100 Subject: HID: holtek: fix mouse probing From: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> commit 93a2207c254ca102ebbdae47b00f19bbfbfa7ecd upstream. An overlook from the previous commit: we don't even parse or start the device, meaning that the device is not presented to user space. Fixes: 93020953d0fa ("HID: check for valid USB device for many HID drivers") Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Link: https://bugs.archlinux.org/task/73048 Link: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215341 Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/e4efbf13-bd8d-0370-629b-6c80c0044b15@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/ Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/hid/hid-holtek-mouse.c | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) --- a/drivers/hid/hid-holtek-mouse.c +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-holtek-mouse.c @@ -68,8 +68,23 @@ static __u8 *holtek_mouse_report_fixup(s static int holtek_mouse_probe(struct hid_device *hdev, const struct hid_device_id *id) { + int ret; + if (!hid_is_usb(hdev)) return -EINVAL; + + ret = hid_parse(hdev); + if (ret) { + hid_err(hdev, "hid parse failed: %d\n", ret); + return ret; + } + + ret = hid_hw_start(hdev, HID_CONNECT_DEFAULT); + if (ret) { + hid_err(hdev, "hw start failed: %d\n", ret); + return ret; + } + return 0; } Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/hid-holtek-fix-mouse-probing.patch