On Thu, Sep 17, 2015 at 07:29:47PM +0200, Elias Vanderstuyft wrote:
> 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....@gmail.com>
Applied, thank you.
> ---
> drivers/input/ff-core.c | 5 +++++
> include/uapi/linux/input.h | 8 ++++++++
> 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/input/ff-core.c b/drivers/input/ff-core.c
> index c642082..0bf7008 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 */
> diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input.h b/include/uapi/linux/input.h
> index 63915a7..42d7933 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/linux/input.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/linux/input.h
> @@ -1200,6 +1200,14 @@ struct ff_effect {
> #define FF_GAIN 0x60
> #define FF_AUTOCENTER 0x61
>
> +/*
> + * ff->playback(effect_id = FF_GAIN) is the first effect_id to
> + * cause a collision with another ff method, in this case ff->set_gain().
> + * 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 FF_GAIN
> +
> #define FF_MAX 0x7f
> #define FF_CNT (FF_MAX+1)
>
> --
> 1.9.3
>
--
Dmitry
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