This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled Input: spaceball - fix parsing of movement data packets 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: input-spaceball-fix-parsing-of-movement-data-packets.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 bc7ec91718c49d938849697cfad98fcd9877cc26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Leo L. Schwab" <ewhac@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 21:05:00 -0800 Subject: Input: spaceball - fix parsing of movement data packets From: Leo L. Schwab <ewhac@xxxxxxxxx> commit bc7ec91718c49d938849697cfad98fcd9877cc26 upstream. The spaceball.c module was not properly parsing the movement reports coming from the device. The code read axis data as signed 16-bit little-endian values starting at offset 2. In fact, axis data in Spaceball movement reports are signed 16-bit big-endian values starting at offset 3. This was determined first by visually inspecting the data packets, and later verified by consulting: http://spacemice.org/pdf/SpaceBall_2003-3003_Protocol.pdf If this ever worked properly, it was in the time before Git... Signed-off-by: Leo L. Schwab <ewhac@xxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20211221101630.1146385-1-ewhac@xxxxxxxxx Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c | 11 +++++++++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- a/drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c +++ b/drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c @@ -35,6 +35,7 @@ #include <linux/module.h> #include <linux/input.h> #include <linux/serio.h> +#include <asm/unaligned.h> #define DRIVER_DESC "SpaceTec SpaceBall 2003/3003/4000 FLX driver" @@ -91,9 +92,15 @@ static void spaceball_process_packet(str case 'D': /* Ball data */ if (spaceball->idx != 15) return; - for (i = 0; i < 6; i++) + /* + * Skip first three bytes; read six axes worth of data. + * Axis values are signed 16-bit big-endian. + */ + data += 3; + for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spaceball_axes); i++) { input_report_abs(dev, spaceball_axes[i], - (__s16)((data[2 * i + 3] << 8) | data[2 * i + 2])); + (__s16)get_unaligned_be16(&data[i * 2])); + } break; case 'K': /* Button data */ Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ewhac@xxxxxxxxx are queue-4.9/input-spaceball-fix-parsing-of-movement-data-packets.patch