[PATCH 1/4] Input: fix poller start order on uninhibit

From: Dmitry Torokhov

Date: Wed Jun 24 2026 - 01:50:38 EST


When uninhibiting a device, we start the poller before marking the
device as uninhibited (setting dev->inhibited = false). Since the
poller immediately polls the device and reports events via input_event(),
these initial events are dropped because dev->inhibited is still true.

Fix this by starting the poller only after the device is fully uninhibited
and its state is replayed.

Fixes: a181616487db ("Input: Add "inhibited" property")
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.5-flash
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@xxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/input/input.c | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/input/input.c b/drivers/input/input.c
index cf6fecea79b8..d99dfe69e12d 100644
--- a/drivers/input/input.c
+++ b/drivers/input/input.c
@@ -1793,8 +1793,6 @@ static int input_uninhibit_device(struct input_dev *dev)
if (error)
return error;
}
- if (dev->poller)
- input_dev_poller_start(dev->poller);
}

dev->inhibited = false;
@@ -1802,6 +1800,9 @@ static int input_uninhibit_device(struct input_dev *dev)
scoped_guard(spinlock_irq, &dev->event_lock)
input_dev_toggle(dev, true);

+ if (dev->users && dev->poller)
+ input_dev_poller_start(dev->poller);
+
return 0;
}

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