[PATCH] HID: pidff: bound the unit exponent rescaling loop

From: Shengzhuo Wei

Date: Wed Oct 28 2026 - 12:04:50 EST


pidff_rescale_time() walks the device-provided unit exponent one step
at a time, allowing extreme values to cause billions of iterations
while ff->mutex is held. In a UHID test with an INT_MIN exponent,
EVIOCSFF took 3.1 to 4.3 seconds to upload a finite-duration effect.

Stop rescaling once scaled_time becomes zero, since further
multiplication or division by 10 cannot change the result. The u32
value becomes zero within 32 multiplications by 10, and the u16
input within 5 divisions. This bounds the loops while preserving
their results for all exponents, including wraparound.

Fixes: 8713107221a8 ("HID: pidff: Rescale time values to match field units")
Cc: stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Shengzhuo Wei <me@xxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c
index 22951b7ecd17..1a2fffcf204e 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/usbhid/hid-pidff.c
@@ -354,9 +354,9 @@ static u32 pidff_rescale_time(u16 time, struct hid_field *field)
int exponent = field->unit_exponent;

pr_debug("time field exponent: %d\n", exponent);
- for (; exponent < FF_TIME_EXPONENT; exponent++)
+ for (; scaled_time && exponent < FF_TIME_EXPONENT; exponent++)
scaled_time *= 10;
- for (; exponent > FF_TIME_EXPONENT; exponent--)
+ for (; scaled_time && exponent > FF_TIME_EXPONENT; exponent--)
scaled_time /= 10;

pr_debug("time calculated from %d to %d\n", time, scaled_time);

---
base-commit: d135ab453a7400a34930bdda1ef4bdc8acfac80e
change-id: 20261028-b4-pidff-rescale-exponent-1d5c4e218e6d

Best regards,
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Shengzhuo Wei <me@xxxxxxxx>