Re: [PATCH] HID: Increase maximum report size allowed by hid_field_extract()

From: Benjamin Tissoires
Date: Tue May 21 2019 - 10:00:47 EST


On Thu, May 9, 2019 at 9:30 PM Jiri Kosina <jikos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 26 Apr 2019, Kai-Heng Feng wrote:
>
> > >Ronald (Cc-ed) raised quite a good point:
> > >what's the benefit of removing the error message if this function (and
> > >__extract) can only report an unsigned 32 bits value?
> >
> > I didnât spot this, sorry.
> >
> > >
> > >My take is we should revert 94a9992f7dbdfb28976b upstream and think at
> > >a better solution.
> >
> > I think using a new fix to replace it will be a better approach, as it at
> > least partially solves the issue.
>
> Guys, did this fall in between cracks? Is anyone planning to send a fixup?
>

Kai-Heng, have you been able to work on that?

Cheers,
Benjamin