Re: [PATCH v4 2/2] input/uinput: add UI_GET_SYSNAME ioctl to retrievethe sysfs path
From: David Herrmann
Date: Thu Jan 23 2014 - 09:37:46 EST
Hi Benjamin
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:24 PM, Benjamin Tissoires
<benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> uinput is used in the xorg-integration-tests suite and in the wayland
> test suite. These automated tests suites create many virtual input
> devices and then hook something to read these newly created devices.
>
> Currently, uinput does not provide the created input device, which means
> that we rely on an heuristic to guess which input node was created.
> The problem is that is heuristic is subjected to races between different
> uinput devices or even with physical devices. Having a way to retrieve
> the sysfs path allows us to find without any doubts the event node.
>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>
> Hi guys,
>
> a new version of this patch with a brand new commit message.
> Happy reviewing :)
>
> changes since v3:
> - new commit message (I hope it will be better now)
> - removed the -EAGAIN stuff thanks to the previous patch (not in v3)
> - used "put_user(0, (char *)dest + len - 1);" instead of "copy_to_user(dest + len - 1, "\0", 1);"
> - check if maxlen == 0
>
> changes since v2:
> - the ioctl returns only the device name, thus I renamed the ioctl to UI_GET_SYSNAME
> - reordered uinput_str_to_user() arguments
> - be sure to terminate the user string we send by \0
> - abort if udev->state is not UIST_CREATED
> - dropped the patch 1/2 (adding resolution to uinput) because I think David has
> already it in one of his queues (ABS2 IIRC)
>
> The corresponding libevdev patch is still here:
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/input-tools/2014-January/000757.html
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin
>
> drivers/input/misc/uinput.c | 42 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> include/linux/uinput.h | 2 ++
> include/uapi/linux/uinput.h | 13 ++++++++++++-
> 3 files changed, 56 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
> index d8ae08d..b51269f 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/misc/uinput.c
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
> * Author: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *
> * Changes/Revisions:
> + * 0.4 01/09/2014 (Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>)
> + * - add UI_GET_SYSNAME ioctl
> * 0.3 09/04/2006 (Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannula@xxxxxxxxx>)
> * - updated ff support for the changes in kernel interface
> * - added MODULE_VERSION
> @@ -670,6 +672,30 @@ static int uinput_ff_upload_from_user(const char __user *buffer,
> __ret; \
> })
>
> +static int uinput_str_to_user(void __user *dest, const char *str,
> + unsigned int maxlen)
> +{
> + int len, ret;
> +
> + if (!str)
> + return -ENOENT;
> +
> + if (maxlen == 0)
> + return -EINVAL;
> +
> + len = strlen(str) + 1;
> + if (len > maxlen)
> + len = maxlen;
> +
> + ret = copy_to_user(dest, str, len);
Technically you could use "len - 1" here, but it's fine.
Reviewed-by: David Herrmann <dh.herrmann@xxxxxxxxx>
Thanks
David
> + if (ret)
> + return -EFAULT;
> +
> + /* force terminating '\0' */
> + ret = put_user(0, (char *)dest + len - 1);
> + return ret ? -EFAULT : len;
> +}
> +
> static long uinput_ioctl_handler(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> unsigned long arg, void __user *p)
> {
> @@ -679,6 +705,8 @@ static long uinput_ioctl_handler(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> struct uinput_ff_erase ff_erase;
> struct uinput_request *req;
> char *phys;
> + const char *name;
> + unsigned int size;
>
> retval = mutex_lock_interruptible(&udev->mutex);
> if (retval)
> @@ -831,6 +859,20 @@ static long uinput_ioctl_handler(struct file *file, unsigned int cmd,
> goto out;
> }
>
> + size = _IOC_SIZE(cmd);
> +
> + /* Now check variable-length commands */
> + switch (cmd & ~IOCSIZE_MASK) {
> + case UI_GET_SYSNAME(0):
> + if (udev->state != UIST_CREATED) {
> + retval = -ENOENT;
> + goto out;
> + }
> + name = dev_name(&udev->dev->dev);
> + retval = uinput_str_to_user(p, name, size);
> + goto out;
> + }
> +
> retval = -EINVAL;
> out:
> mutex_unlock(&udev->mutex);
> diff --git a/include/linux/uinput.h b/include/linux/uinput.h
> index 0a4487d..0994c0d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/uinput.h
> +++ b/include/linux/uinput.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
> * Author: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *
> * Changes/Revisions:
> + * 0.4 01/09/2014 (Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>)
> + * - add UI_GET_SYSNAME ioctl
> * 0.3 24/05/2006 (Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannulagmail.com>)
> * - update ff support for the changes in kernel interface
> * - add UINPUT_VERSION
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/uinput.h b/include/uapi/linux/uinput.h
> index fe46431..0389b48 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/uinput.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/uinput.h
> @@ -20,6 +20,8 @@
> * Author: Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho <aris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> *
> * Changes/Revisions:
> + * 0.4 01/09/2014 (Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>)
> + * - add UI_GET_SYSNAME ioctl
> * 0.3 24/05/2006 (Anssi Hannula <anssi.hannulagmail.com>)
> * - update ff support for the changes in kernel interface
> * - add UINPUT_VERSION
> @@ -35,7 +37,7 @@
> #include <linux/types.h>
> #include <linux/input.h>
>
> -#define UINPUT_VERSION 3
> +#define UINPUT_VERSION 4
>
>
> struct uinput_ff_upload {
> @@ -73,6 +75,15 @@ struct uinput_ff_erase {
> #define UI_BEGIN_FF_ERASE _IOWR(UINPUT_IOCTL_BASE, 202, struct uinput_ff_erase)
> #define UI_END_FF_ERASE _IOW(UINPUT_IOCTL_BASE, 203, struct uinput_ff_erase)
>
> +/**
> + * UI_GET_SYSNAME - get the sysfs name of the created uinput device
> + *
> + * @return the sysfs name of the created virtual input device.
> + * The complete sysfs path is then /sys/devices/virtual/input/--NAME--
> + * Usually, it is in the form "inputN"
> + */
> +#define UI_GET_SYSNAME(len) _IOC(_IOC_READ, UINPUT_IOCTL_BASE, 300, len)
> +
> /*
> * To write a force-feedback-capable driver, the upload_effect
> * and erase_effect callbacks in input_dev must be implemented.
> --
> 1.8.4.2
>
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