Re: [PATCH 2/2] HID: multitouch: Check to ensure report responses match the request

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Feb 27 2026, Lee Jones wrote:
> It is possible for a malicious (or clumsy) device to respond to a
> specific report's feature request using a completely different report
> ID.  This can cause confusion in the HID core resulting in nasty
> side-effects such as OOB writes.
> 
> Add a check to ensure that the report ID in the response, matches the
> one that was requested.  If it doesn't, omit reporting the raw event and
> return early.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lee Jones <lee@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c | 7 +++++++
>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c b/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
> index b1c3ef129058..834c1a334887 100644
> --- a/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
> +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-multitouch.c
> @@ -499,12 +499,19 @@ static void mt_get_feature(struct hid_device *hdev, struct hid_report *report)
>  		dev_warn(&hdev->dev, "failed to fetch feature %d\n",
>  			 report->id);
>  	} else {
> +		/* The report ID in the request and the response should match */
> +		if (report->id != buf[0]) {
> +			hid_err(hdev, "Returned feature report did not match the request\n");
> +			goto free;
> +		}
> +

AFAICT, hid-vivaldi-common.c is doing the same calls to
hid_report_raw_event() in vivaldi_feature_mapping() and would suffer
from the same bug.

It would be nice if we could have the matching fix.

Cheers,
Benjamin

>  		ret = hid_report_raw_event(hdev, HID_FEATURE_REPORT, buf,
>  					   size, 0);
>  		if (ret)
>  			dev_warn(&hdev->dev, "failed to report feature\n");
>  	}
>  
> +free:
>  	kfree(buf);
>  }
>  
> -- 
> 2.53.0.473.g4a7958ca14-goog
>