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Arnd Bergmann
6038f373a3 llseek: automatically add .llseek fop
All file_operations should get a .llseek operation so we can make
nonseekable_open the default for future file operations without a
.llseek pointer.

The three cases that we can automatically detect are no_llseek, seq_lseek
and default_llseek. For cases where we can we can automatically prove that
the file offset is always ignored, we use noop_llseek, which maintains
the current behavior of not returning an error from a seek.

New drivers should normally not use noop_llseek but instead use no_llseek
and call nonseekable_open at open time.  Existing drivers can be converted
to do the same when the maintainer knows for certain that no user code
relies on calling seek on the device file.

The generated code is often incorrectly indented and right now contains
comments that clarify for each added line why a specific variant was
chosen. In the version that gets submitted upstream, the comments will
be gone and I will manually fix the indentation, because there does not
seem to be a way to do that using coccinelle.

Some amount of new code is currently sitting in linux-next that should get
the same modifications, which I will do at the end of the merge window.

Many thanks to Julia Lawall for helping me learn to write a semantic
patch that does all this.

===== begin semantic patch =====
// This adds an llseek= method to all file operations,
// as a preparation for making no_llseek the default.
//
// The rules are
// - use no_llseek explicitly if we do nonseekable_open
// - use seq_lseek for sequential files
// - use default_llseek if we know we access f_pos
// - use noop_llseek if we know we don't access f_pos,
//   but we still want to allow users to call lseek
//
@ open1 exists @
identifier nested_open;
@@
nested_open(...)
{
<+...
nonseekable_open(...)
...+>
}

@ open exists@
identifier open_f;
identifier i, f;
identifier open1.nested_open;
@@
int open_f(struct inode *i, struct file *f)
{
<+...
(
nonseekable_open(...)
|
nested_open(...)
)
...+>
}

@ read disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
   *off = E
|
   *off += E
|
   func(..., off, ...)
|
   E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ read_no_fpos disable optional_qualifier exists @
identifier read_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t read_f(struct file *f, char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ write @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
expression E;
identifier func;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
<+...
(
  *off = E
|
  *off += E
|
  func(..., off, ...)
|
  E = *off
)
...+>
}

@ write_no_fpos @
identifier write_f;
identifier f, p, s, off;
type ssize_t, size_t, loff_t;
@@
ssize_t write_f(struct file *f, const char *p, size_t s, loff_t *off)
{
... when != off
}

@ fops0 @
identifier fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
 ...
};

@ has_llseek depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier llseek_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .llseek = llseek_f,
...
};

@ has_read depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .read = read_f,
...
};

@ has_write depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
...
};

@ has_open depends on fops0 @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .open = open_f,
...
};

// use no_llseek if we call nonseekable_open
////////////////////////////////////////////
@ nonseekable1 depends on !has_llseek && has_open @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier nso ~= "nonseekable_open";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = nso, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* nonseekable */
};

@ nonseekable2 depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier open.open_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .open = open_f, ...
+.llseek = no_llseek, /* open uses nonseekable */
};

// use seq_lseek for sequential files
/////////////////////////////////////
@ seq depends on !has_llseek @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier sr ~= "seq_read";
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...  .read = sr, ...
+.llseek = seq_lseek, /* we have seq_read */
};

// use default_llseek if there is a readdir
///////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops1 depends on !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier readdir_e;
@@
// any other fop is used that changes pos
struct file_operations fops = {
... .readdir = readdir_e, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* readdir is present */
};

// use default_llseek if at least one of read/write touches f_pos
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
@ fops2 depends on !fops1 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read.read_f;
@@
// read fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = default_llseek, /* read accesses f_pos */
};

@ fops3 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+	.llseek = default_llseek, /* write accesses f_pos */
};

// Use noop_llseek if neither read nor write accesses f_pos
///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

@ fops4 depends on !fops1 && !fops2 && !fops3 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
// write fops use offset
struct file_operations fops = {
...
 .write = write_f,
 .read = read_f,
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read and write both use no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_write && !has_read && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier write_no_fpos.write_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .write = write_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* write uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
identifier read_no_fpos.read_f;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
... .read = read_f, ...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* read uses no f_pos */
};

@ depends on !has_read && !has_write && !fops1 && !fops2 && !has_llseek && !nonseekable1 && !nonseekable2 && !seq @
identifier fops0.fops;
@@
struct file_operations fops = {
...
+.llseek = noop_llseek, /* no read or write fn */
};
===== End semantic patch =====

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
2010-10-15 15:53:27 +02:00
Antonio Ospite
e42dee9a99 HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_write
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffffa0f0a625>] hidraw_write+0x3b/0x116 [hid]
[...]

This is reproducible by disconnecting the device while userspace writes
to dev node in a loop and doesn't check return values in order to exit
the loop.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-10-06 11:30:34 +02:00
Antonio Ospite
d20d5ffab9 HID: hidraw, fix a NULL pointer dereference in hidraw_ioctl
BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000028
IP: [<ffffffffa02c66b4>] hidraw_ioctl+0xfc/0x32c [hid]
[...]

This is reproducible by disconnecting the device while userspace does
ioctl in a loop and doesn't check return values in order to exit the
loop.

Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-10-06 11:30:31 +02:00
Stefan Achatz
83efb8fe67 HID: remove unused variable from hidraw_read
Removed unused variable from hidraw_read.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-25 09:47:19 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
ef77ad5e67 Merge branches 'upstream-fixes', 'bkl-removal', 'debugfs-fixes' and 'hid-suspend' into for-linus 2010-05-19 14:05:06 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
7426ef52b4 Merge branch 'upstream' into for-linus
Conflicts:
	drivers/hid/hid-wacom.c
2010-05-19 14:04:49 +02:00
Antonio Ospite
81cd584394 HID: hidraw: fix indentation
Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-05-11 10:47:55 +02:00
Tejun Heo
5a0e3ad6af include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h
percpu.h is included by sched.h and module.h and thus ends up being
included when building most .c files.  percpu.h includes slab.h which
in turn includes gfp.h making everything defined by the two files
universally available and complicating inclusion dependencies.

percpu.h -> slab.h dependency is about to be removed.  Prepare for
this change by updating users of gfp and slab facilities include those
headers directly instead of assuming availability.  As this conversion
needs to touch large number of source files, the following script is
used as the basis of conversion.

  http://userweb.kernel.org/~tj/misc/slabh-sweep.py

The script does the followings.

* Scan files for gfp and slab usages and update includes such that
  only the necessary includes are there.  ie. if only gfp is used,
  gfp.h, if slab is used, slab.h.

* When the script inserts a new include, it looks at the include
  blocks and try to put the new include such that its order conforms
  to its surrounding.  It's put in the include block which contains
  core kernel includes, in the same order that the rest are ordered -
  alphabetical, Christmas tree, rev-Xmas-tree or at the end if there
  doesn't seem to be any matching order.

* If the script can't find a place to put a new include (mostly
  because the file doesn't have fitting include block), it prints out
  an error message indicating which .h file needs to be added to the
  file.

The conversion was done in the following steps.

1. The initial automatic conversion of all .c files updated slightly
   over 4000 files, deleting around 700 includes and adding ~480 gfp.h
   and ~3000 slab.h inclusions.  The script emitted errors for ~400
   files.

2. Each error was manually checked.  Some didn't need the inclusion,
   some needed manual addition while adding it to implementation .h or
   embedding .c file was more appropriate for others.  This step added
   inclusions to around 150 files.

3. The script was run again and the output was compared to the edits
   from #2 to make sure no file was left behind.

4. Several build tests were done and a couple of problems were fixed.
   e.g. lib/decompress_*.c used malloc/free() wrappers around slab
   APIs requiring slab.h to be added manually.

5. The script was run on all .h files but without automatically
   editing them as sprinkling gfp.h and slab.h inclusions around .h
   files could easily lead to inclusion dependency hell.  Most gfp.h
   inclusion directives were ignored as stuff from gfp.h was usually
   wildly available and often used in preprocessor macros.  Each
   slab.h inclusion directive was examined and added manually as
   necessary.

6. percpu.h was updated not to include slab.h.

7. Build test were done on the following configurations and failures
   were fixed.  CONFIG_GCOV_KERNEL was turned off for all tests (as my
   distributed build env didn't work with gcov compiles) and a few
   more options had to be turned off depending on archs to make things
   build (like ipr on powerpc/64 which failed due to missing writeq).

   * x86 and x86_64 UP and SMP allmodconfig and a custom test config.
   * powerpc and powerpc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * sparc and sparc64 SMP allmodconfig
   * ia64 SMP allmodconfig
   * s390 SMP allmodconfig
   * alpha SMP allmodconfig
   * um on x86_64 SMP allmodconfig

8. percpu.h modifications were reverted so that it could be applied as
   a separate patch and serve as bisection point.

Given the fact that I had only a couple of failures from tests on step
6, I'm fairly confident about the coverage of this conversion patch.
If there is a breakage, it's likely to be something in one of the arch
headers which should be easily discoverable easily on most builds of
the specific arch.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Guess-its-ok-by: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com>
2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
Jiri Kosina
0a504541b3 HID: remove excessive _EMERG messages from hidraw
We don't need to shout loudly when device gets disconnected
while hidraw node has been open, as this is properly handled
in disconnect() and protected by minors_lock already.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-25 15:20:01 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
2e57480b2a HID: remove BKL from hidraw
Remove BKL from hidraw, which is possible through fixing the
locking of minors_lock mutex properly -- it is now used to
guard all accessess to hidraw_table[], preventing it to becoming
NULL unexpectedly by unregistering the device.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-03-25 14:29:14 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
d4bfa033ed HID: make raw reports possible for both feature and output reports
In commit 2da31939a4 ("Bluetooth: Implement raw output support for HIDP
layer"), support for Bluetooth hid_output_raw_report was added, but it
pushes the data to the intr socket instead of the ctrl one. This has been
fixed by 6bf8268f9a ("Bluetooth: Use the control channel for raw HID reports")

Still, it is necessary to distinguish whether the report in question should be
either FEATURE or OUTPUT. For this, we have to extend the generic HID API,
so that hid_output_raw_report() callback provides means to specify this
value so that it can be passed down to lower level hardware drivers (currently
Bluetooth and USB).

Based on original patch by Bastien Nocera <hadess@hadess.net>
Acked-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-02-03 15:41:52 +01:00
Linus Torvalds
03266d28ca Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/hid:
  HID: fix possible deadlock in hidraw_read
  HID: fix kerneldoc comment for hid_input_report()
  HID: add __init/__exit macros to twinhan.c
2009-10-13 10:10:33 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
b0e14951ee HID: fix possible deadlock in hidraw_read
If the loop in hidraw_read() loops more than once, then we might
end up trying to acquire already locked mutex, casuing a deadlock.

Reported-by: iceberg <iceberg@ispras.ru>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-10-12 11:25:56 +02:00
Alexey Dobriyan
a99bbaf5ee headers: remove sched.h from poll.h
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-10-04 15:05:10 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
bbe281fad6 HID: hidraw -- fix comment about accepted devices
hidraw accepts any devices, no matter if the device has
already been claimed by other HID driver (hid-input, hidraw), and
this is intended to stay. Fix up the comment to reflect reality.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-06-04 15:44:25 +02:00
Dan Carpenter
38089c658b HID: hidraw -- fix missing unlocks in unlocked_ioctl
There were 2 places that returned directly instead of releasing their
locks.  I sent a fix for this file earlier but ended up missing these
spots.  I think what happened is that I have improved my checker script
since then...  Or maybe I just screwed up.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-04-07 16:35:56 +02:00
Oliver Neukum
0361a28d3f HID: autosuspend support for USB HID
This uses the USB busy mechanism for aggessive autosuspend of USB
HID devices. It autosuspends all opened devices supporting remote wakeup
after a timeout unless

- output is being done to the device
- a key is being held down (remote wakeup isn't triggered upon key release)
- LED(s) are lit
- hiddev is opened

As in the current driver closed devices will be autosuspended even if they
don't support remote wakeup.

The patch is quite large because output to devices is done in hard interrupt
context meaning a lot a queuing and locking had to be touched. The LED stuff
has been solved by means of a simple counter. Additions to the generic HID code
could be avoided. In addition it now covers hidraw. It contains an embryonic
version of an API to let the generic HID code tell the lower levels which
capabilities with respect to power management are needed.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-03-25 17:57:57 +01:00
Dan Carpenter
dfd395aff4 HID: unlock properly on error paths in hidraw_ioctl()
We can't return immediately because lock_kernel() is held.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-02-17 13:25:01 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
ed42350e02 Merge branch 'upstream-fixes' into for-next
Conflicts:

	drivers/hid/hid-ids.h
2009-01-04 01:04:09 +01:00
Oliver Neukum
b8a832b1c0 HID: fix reference count leak hidraw
The hidraw subsystem has a bug that prevents the close syscall from ever
reaching the low level driver, leading to a resource leak. Fix by replacing
postdecrement with predecrement.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-04 01:01:43 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
aae6c286da HID: set proper dev.parent in hidraw
We need to properly set parent of the hidraw device (which is the
corresponding physical device itself) in order to hidraw devices not
end up under virtual device tree.

Reported-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-04 01:00:52 +01:00
Jiri Kosina
9188e79ec3 HID: add phys and name ioctls to hidraw
The hiddev interface provides ioctl() calls which can be used
to obtain phys and raw name of the underlying device.

Add the corresponding support also into hidraw.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-01-04 01:00:51 +01:00
Oliver Neukum
7d672cd750 HID: fix locking in hidraw_open()
As open needs to sleep hidraw was wrong to call it with a spinlock held.
Furthermore, open can of course fail which needs to be handled.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-11-13 10:31:35 +01:00
Jiri Slaby
0f2c5945a9 HID: fix lock imbalance in hidraw
Add omitted unlock_kernel() to hidraw_ioctl().
Added in 979c407e3b
(HID: Push down BKL into ioctl handler in hidraw).

Corresponing sparse warning:
drivers/hid/hidraw.c:267:9: warning: context imbalance in 'hidraw_ioctl': wrong count at exit
drivers/hid/hidraw.c:267:9:    context 'kernel_lock': wanted 0, got 1

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-23 01:47:30 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
140ae3eb6f HID: fix hidraw_exit section mismatch
hidraw_exit() marked as __exit is called from __init function
from HID core. Remove the section placement from that function.

Reported-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-17 18:08:22 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
a9b12619f7 device create: misc: convert device_create_drvdata to device_create
Now that device_create() has been audited, rename things back to the
original call to be sane.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16 09:24:43 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
2b107d629d HID: fix incorrent length condition in hidraw_write()
The bound check on the buffer length

	if (count > HID_MIN_BUFFER_SIZE)

is of course incorrent, the proper check is

	if (count > HID_MAX_BUFFER_SIZE)

Fix it.

Reported-by: Jerry Ryle <jerry@mindtribe.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-14 23:51:00 +02:00
Jiri Slaby
c500c97140 HID: hid, make parsing event driven
Next step for complete hid bus, this patch includes:
- call parser either from probe or from hid-core if there is no probe.
- add ll_driver structure and centralize some stuff there (open, close...)
- split and merge usb_hid_configure and hid_probe into several functions
  to allow hooks/fixes between them

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jslaby@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-10-14 23:50:48 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
b22d837006 Merge branches 'upstream' and 'upstream-fixes' into for-linus 2008-07-23 15:26:10 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
4db1c62c99 HID: fix memory leak in hidraw_release
hidraw_release() forgot to free the linked list structure, causing memory
leak.

Reported-by: Juan Marcos Diez Esteban <juan_m_diez@yahoo.es>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-07-23 15:25:21 +02:00
Alan Cox
979c407e3b HID: Push down BKL into ioctl handler in hidraw
In this case I simply wrapped it as code review suggests the locking
already terminally broken and I didn't want to make it first. See added
comment

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2008-07-23 15:21:55 +02:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
0fd15a18d8 device create: hid: convert device_create to device_create_drvdata
device_create() is race-prone, so use the race-free
device_create_drvdata() instead as device_create() is going away.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-07-21 21:54:42 -07:00
Jonathan Corbet
702e57d9ef HID: cdev lock_kernel() pushdown
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-06-20 14:05:47 -06:00
Pavel Emelyanov
ba25f9dcc4 Use helpers to obtain task pid in printks
The task_struct->pid member is going to be deprecated, so start
using the helpers (task_pid_nr/task_pid_vnr/task_pid_nr_ns) in
the kernel.

The first thing to start with is the pid, printed to dmesg - in
this case we may safely use task_pid_nr(). Besides, printks produce
more (much more) than a half of all the explicit pid usage.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: git-drm went and changed lots of stuff]
Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-19 11:53:43 -07:00
Jiri Kosina
57d292bd7e HID: fix HIDIOCGRDESC memory access in hidraw
Fix bogus copying of data into userspace when HIDIOCGRDESC is issued.
HID-transport layer makes sure that dev->hid->rdesc is not larger than
HID_MAX_DESCRIPTOR_SIZE.

Noticed-by: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-15 08:12:00 -07:00
Mariusz Kozlowski
709d27c04f HID: hidraw_connect() memleak fix
It looks like hidraw_connect() is leaking memory in case of failure.
Also it should return -ENOMEM when kzalloc fails.

Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2007-10-14 14:47:26 +02:00
Jiri Kosina
86166b7bcd HID: add hidraw interface
hidraw is an interface that is going to obsolete hiddev one
day.

Many userland applications are using libusb instead of using
kernel-provided hiddev interface. This is caused by various
reasons - the HID parser in kernel doesn't handle all the
HID hardware on the planet properly, some devices might require
its own specific quirks/drivers, etc.

hiddev interface tries to do its best to parse all the received
reports properly, and presents only parsed usages into userspace.
This is however often not enough, and that's the reason why
many userland applications just don't use hiddev at all, and
rather use libusb to read raw USB events and process them on
their own.

Another drawback of hiddev is that it is USB-specific.

hidraw interface provides userspace readers with really raw HID
reports, no matter what the low-level transport layer is (USB/BT),
and gives the userland applications all the freedom to process
the HID reports in a way they wish to.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2007-10-14 14:47:26 +02:00