[PATCH] HID: rmi: do not fetch more than 16 bytes in a query

From: Benjamin Tissoires
Date: Thu Apr 24 2014 - 18:27:04 EST


A firmware bug is present on the XPS Haswell edition which silently
split the request in two responses when the caller ask for a read of
more than 16 bytes.
The FW sends the first 16 then the 4 next, but it says that it answered
the 20 bytes in the first report.

This occurs only on the retrieving of the min/max of X and Y of the F11
function.
We only use the first 10 bytes of the Ctrl register, so we can get only
those 10 bytes to prevent the bug from happening.

Resolves:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1090161

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c | 11 ++++++++---
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c b/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c
index 7da9509..cee89c9 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-rmi.c
@@ -613,10 +613,15 @@ static int rmi_populate_f11(struct hid_device *hdev)
}
}

- /* retrieve the ctrl registers */
- ret = rmi_read_block(hdev, data->f11.control_base_addr, buf, 20);
+ /*
+ * retrieve the ctrl registers
+ * the ctrl register has a size of 20 but a fw bug split it into 16 + 4,
+ * and there is no way to know if the first 20 bytes are here or not.
+ * We use only the first 10 bytes, so get only them.
+ */
+ ret = rmi_read_block(hdev, data->f11.control_base_addr, buf, 10);
if (ret) {
- hid_err(hdev, "can not read ctrl block of size 20: %d.\n", ret);
+ hid_err(hdev, "can not read ctrl block of size 10: %d.\n", ret);
return ret;
}

--
1.9.0

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