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authorElias Vanderstuyft <elias.vds@gmail.com>2015-10-14 17:29:37 -0700
committerDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>2015-10-16 15:32:16 -0700
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Input: document and check on implicitly defined FF_MAX_EFFECTS
There is an undocumented upper bound for the total number of ff effects: FF_GAIN (= 96). This can be found as follows: - user: write(EV_FF, effect_id, iterations) calls kernel: ff->playback(effect_id, ...): starts effect "effect_id" - user: write(EV_FF, FF_GAIN, gain) calls kernel: ff->set_gain(gain, ...): sets gain A collision occurs when effect_id equals FF_GAIN. According to input_ff_event(), FF_GAIN is the smallest value where a collision occurs. Therefore the greatest safe value for effect_id is FF_GAIN - 1, and thus the total number of effects should never exceed FF_GAIN. Define FF_MAX_EFFECTS as FF_GAIN and check on this limit in ff-core. Signed-off-by: Elias Vanderstuyft <elias.vds@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers')
-rw-r--r--drivers/input/ff-core.c5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/input/ff-core.c b/drivers/input/ff-core.c
index eab56c0aacd5..8f2042432c85 100644
--- a/drivers/input/ff-core.c
+++ b/drivers/input/ff-core.c
@@ -318,6 +318,11 @@ int input_ff_create(struct input_dev *dev, unsigned int max_effects)
return -EINVAL;
}
+ if (max_effects > FF_MAX_EFFECTS) {
+ dev_err(&dev->dev, "cannot allocate more than FF_MAX_EFFECTS effects\n");
+ return -EINVAL;
+ }
+
ff_dev_size = sizeof(struct ff_device) +
max_effects * sizeof(struct file *);
if (ff_dev_size < max_effects) /* overflow */