Re: [PATCH] Input: uinput - fix crash when mixing old and new init style

From: Benjamin Tissoires
Date: Wed Feb 01 2017 - 03:49:37 EST


On Jan 31 2017 or thereabouts, Dmitry Torokhov wrote:
> If user tries to initialize uinput device mixing old and new style
> initialization (i.e. using old UI_SET_ABSBIT instead of UI_ABS_SETUP,
> we forget to allocate input->absinfo and will crash when trying to send
> absolute events:
>
> ioctl(ui, UI_DEV_SETUP, &us);
> ioctl(ui, UI_SET_EVBIT, EV_ABS);
> ioctl(ui, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_X);
> ioctl(ui, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_Y);
> ioctl(ui, UI_DEV_CREATE, 0);

Shouldn't we prevent completely the mix of the 2 versions? If the user
used UI_DEV_SETUP, we should probably prevent the use of UI_SET_ABSBIT
afterwards, or at least warn it somehow.

But the patch in itself doesn't hurt, so:
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Benjamin

>
> Reported-by: Rodrigo Rivas Costa <rodrigorivascosta@xxxxxxxxx>
> Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191811
> Fixes: fbae10db0940 ("Input: uinput - rework ABS validation")
> Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 20 ++++++++++++++------
> 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
> index 92595b98e7ed..022be0e22eba 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
> @@ -263,13 +263,21 @@ static int uinput_create_device(struct uinput_device *udev)
> return -EINVAL;
> }
>
> - if (test_bit(ABS_MT_SLOT, dev->absbit)) {
> - nslot = input_abs_get_max(dev, ABS_MT_SLOT) + 1;
> - error = input_mt_init_slots(dev, nslot, 0);
> - if (error)
> + if (test_bit(EV_ABS, dev->evbit)) {
> + input_alloc_absinfo(dev);
> + if (!dev->absinfo) {
> + error = -EINVAL;
> goto fail1;
> - } else if (test_bit(ABS_MT_POSITION_X, dev->absbit)) {
> - input_set_events_per_packet(dev, 60);
> + }
> +
> + if (test_bit(ABS_MT_SLOT, dev->absbit)) {
> + nslot = input_abs_get_max(dev, ABS_MT_SLOT) + 1;
> + error = input_mt_init_slots(dev, nslot, 0);
> + if (error)
> + goto fail1;
> + } else if (test_bit(ABS_MT_POSITION_X, dev->absbit)) {
> + input_set_events_per_packet(dev, 60);
> + }
> }
>
> if (test_bit(EV_FF, dev->evbit) && !udev->ff_effects_max) {
> --
> 2.11.0.483.g087da7b7c-goog
>
> --
> Dmitry