[PATCH 2/2] selftests/hid: multitouch: test a large ContactCountMaximum

From: Trung Nguyen

Date: Wed Jul 01 2026 - 13:18:30 EST


Add a regression test for the out-of-bounds bit operations on
struct mt_device.mt_io_flags.

A HID multitouch device can advertise a ContactCountMaximum far larger
than the number of contacts a single report describes, up to 255. The
driver used to keep the per-slot active state in the bits of a single
unsigned long and index set_bit()/clear_bit() by the slot number, so such
a device drove those operations out of bounds. The sticky-fingers release
timer made it fatal: mt_release_contacts() cleared one bit per slot and
overwrote the adjacent members of struct mt_device.

The new device advertises a ContactCountMaximum of 250 while exposing only
a few finger collections (a large contact count cannot be expressed with
one finger collection per contact within the HID descriptor size limit).
The test sends a single contact and lets the 100ms sticky-fingers timer
release it. A kernel without the fix panics in mt_release_contacts(); a
fixed kernel reports the release cleanly.

Signed-off-by: Trung Nguyen <trungnh@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
.../selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py | 114 ++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 114 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py b/tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py
index fa4fb2054bd4..7897340118b4 100644
--- a/tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py
+++ b/tools/testing/selftests/hid/tests/test_multitouch.py
@@ -513,6 +513,79 @@ class SmartTechDigitizer(Digitizer):
return absinfo is not None and absinfo.resolution == 3


+class MinWin8TSParallelBigContactMax(Digitizer):
+ """A parallel Win8 touchscreen that advertises a ContactCountMaximum much
+ larger than the number of contacts it actually reports.
+
+ Such firmware makes the driver allocate that many input slots (up to 255)
+ while the input report only carries a few contacts. This is what used to
+ drive the per-slot bit operations on mt_io_flags out of bounds. The number
+ of contacts a HID report can describe is limited by the descriptor size,
+ so a large ContactCountMaximum can only be expressed this way, decoupled
+ from the number of finger collections."""
+
+ def __init__(self, n_fingers=5, contact_max=250):
+ self.phys_max = 120, 90
+ rdesc_finger_str = f"""
+ Usage Page (Digitizers)
+ Usage (Finger)
+ Collection (Logical)
+ Report Size (1)
+ Report Count (1)
+ Logical Minimum (0)
+ Logical Maximum (1)
+ Usage (Tip Switch)
+ Input (Data,Var,Abs)
+ Report Size (7)
+ Logical Maximum (127)
+ Input (Cnst,Var,Abs)
+ Report Size (8)
+ Logical Maximum (255)
+ Usage (Contact Id)
+ Input (Data,Var,Abs)
+ Report Size (16)
+ Unit Exponent (-1)
+ Unit (SILinear: cm)
+ Logical Maximum (4095)
+ Physical Minimum (0)
+ Physical Maximum ({self.phys_max[0]})
+ Usage Page (Generic Desktop)
+ Usage (X)
+ Input (Data,Var,Abs)
+ Physical Maximum ({self.phys_max[1]})
+ Usage (Y)
+ Input (Data,Var,Abs)
+ End Collection
+"""
+ rdesc_str = f"""
+ Usage Page (Digitizers)
+ Usage (Touch Screen)
+ Collection (Application)
+ Report ID (1)
+ {rdesc_finger_str * n_fingers}
+ Unit Exponent (-4)
+ Unit (SILinear: s)
+ Logical Maximum (65535)
+ Physical Maximum (65535)
+ Usage Page (Digitizers)
+ Usage (Scan Time)
+ Input (Data,Var,Abs)
+ Report Size (8)
+ Logical Maximum (255)
+ Usage (Contact Count)
+ Input (Data,Var,Abs)
+ Report ID (2)
+ Logical Maximum ({contact_max})
+ Usage (Contact Max)
+ Feature (Data,Var,Abs)
+ End Collection
+ {Digitizer.msCertificationBlob(68)}
+"""
+ super().__init__(
+ f"uhid test parallel big contact max {contact_max}", rdesc_str
+ )
+
+
class BaseTest:
class TestMultitouch(base.BaseTestCase.TestUhid):
kernel_modules = [KERNEL_MODULE]
@@ -1735,6 +1808,47 @@ class TestMinWin8TSParallel(BaseTest.TestWin8Multitouch):
return MinWin8TSParallel(10)


+class TestMinWin8TSParallelBigContactMax(base.BaseTestCase.TestUhid):
+ """Regression test for the out-of-bounds bit operations on
+ struct mt_device.mt_io_flags.
+
+ A Win8 touchscreen may advertise a ContactCountMaximum much larger than
+ the number of contacts it reports. The driver used to keep the per-slot
+ active state in the bits of a single unsigned long while indexing
+ set_bit()/clear_bit() by the slot number, so such a device drove those bit
+ operations out of bounds. The sticky-fingers release timer made it fatal:
+ mt_release_contacts() cleared one bit per slot, overwrote the adjacent
+ struct mt_device members and panicked the kernel.
+
+ Send a single contact, let the 100ms sticky-fingers timer release it, and
+ check that the kernel reports the release cleanly instead of crashing."""
+
+ kernel_modules = [KERNEL_MODULE]
+
+ def create_device(self):
+ return MinWin8TSParallelBigContactMax()
+
+ def test_sticky_fingers_release_big_contact_max(self):
+ uhdev = self.uhdev
+ evdev = uhdev.get_evdev()
+
+ assert evdev.num_slots == uhdev.max_contacts
+
+ t0 = Touch(1, 5, 10)
+ r = uhdev.event([t0])
+ events = uhdev.next_sync_events()
+ self.debug_reports(r, uhdev, events)
+ assert evdev.slots[0][libevdev.EV_ABS.ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID] == 0
+
+ # do not release the contact; the sticky-fingers timer must do it
+ # after 100ms, which is where the out-of-bounds release used to hit
+ time.sleep(0.2)
+ events = uhdev.next_sync_events()
+ self.debug_reports(r, uhdev, events)
+ assert libevdev.InputEvent(libevdev.EV_KEY.BTN_TOUCH, 0) in events
+ assert evdev.slots[0][libevdev.EV_ABS.ABS_MT_TRACKING_ID] == -1
+
+
class TestMinWin8TSHybrid(BaseTest.TestWin8Multitouch):
def create_device(self):
return MinWin8TSHybrid()
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