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Dmitry Torokhov 68a767dd69 Input: try trimming too long modalias strings 
commit 0774d19038 upstream.

If an input device declares too many capability bits then modalias
string for such device may become too long and not fit into uevent
buffer, resulting in failure of sending said uevent. This, in turn,
may prevent userspace from recognizing existence of such devices.

This is typically not a concern for real hardware devices as they have
limited number of keys, but happen with synthetic devices such as
ones created by xen-kbdfront driver, which creates devices as being
capable of delivering all possible keys, since it doesn't know what
keys the backend may produce.

To deal with such devices input core will attempt to trim key data,
in the hope that the rest of modalias string will fit in the given
buffer. When trimming key data it will indicate that it is not
complete by placing "+," sign, resulting in conversions like this:

old: k71,72,73,74,78,7A,7B,7C,7D,8E,9E,A4,AD,E0,E1,E4,F8,174,
new: k71,72,73,74,78,7A,7B,7C,+,

This should allow existing udev rules continue to work with existing
devices, and will also allow writing more complex rules that would
recognize trimmed modalias and check input device characteristics by
other means (for example by parsing KEY= data in uevent or parsing
input device sysfs attributes).

Note that the driver core may try adding more uevent environment
variables once input core is done adding its own, so when forming
modalias we can not use the entire available buffer, so we reduce
it by somewhat an arbitrary amount (96 bytes).

Reported-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Tested-by: Jason Andryuk <jandryuk@gmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/ZjAWMQCJdrxZkvkB@google.com
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2024-06-12 11:11:18 +02:00
arch x86/tsc: Trust initial offset in architectural TSC-adjust MSRs 2024-06-12 11:11:17 +02:00
block block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks 2024-05-25 16:22:55 +02:00
certs certs: Reference revocation list for all keyrings 2023-08-17 20:12:41 +00:00
crypto crypto: jitter - fix CRYPTO_JITTERENTROPY help text 2024-03-26 18:19:52 -04:00
Documentation block: add a partscan sysfs attribute for disks 2024-05-25 16:22:55 +02:00
drivers Input: try trimming too long modalias strings 2024-06-12 11:11:18 +02:00
fs erofs: reliably distinguish block based and fscache mode 2024-05-25 16:22:53 +02:00
include block: add a disk_has_partscan helper 2024-05-25 16:22:55 +02:00
init rust: make mutually exclusive with CFI_CLANG 2024-05-02 16:32:42 +02:00
io_uring io_uring: Fix io_cqring_wait() not restoring sigmask on get_timespec64() failure 2024-04-27 17:11:30 +02:00
ipc Add x86 shadow stack support 2023-08-31 12:20:12 -07:00
kernel ftrace: Fix possible use-after-free issue in ftrace_location() 2024-06-12 11:11:17 +02:00
lib dyndbg: fix old BUG_ON in >control parser 2024-05-17 12:02:33 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Add the copyleft-next-0.3.1 license 2022-11-08 15:44:01 +01:00
mm mm/hugetlb: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(1) when dissolve_free_hugetlb_folio() 2024-05-17 12:02:39 +02:00
net Bluetooth: L2CAP: Fix div-by-zero in l2cap_le_flowctl_init() 2024-05-25 16:22:53 +02:00
rust rust: kernel: require Send for Module implementations 2024-05-17 12:01:56 +02:00
samples work around gcc bugs with 'asm goto' with outputs 2024-02-23 09:24:47 +01:00
scripts kbuild: Disable KCSAN for autogenerated *.mod.c intermediaries 2024-05-17 12:02:12 +02:00
security KEYS: trusted: Do not use WARN when encode fails 2024-05-25 16:22:55 +02:00
sound ASoC: ti: davinci-mcasp: Fix race condition during probe 2024-05-17 12:02:32 +02:00
tools selftests/ftrace: Fix BTFARG testcase to check fprobe is enabled correctly 2024-06-12 11:11:17 +02:00
usr initramfs: Encode dependency on KBUILD_BUILD_TIMESTAMP 2023-06-06 17:54:49 +09:00
virt KVM: Always flush async #PF workqueue when vCPU is being destroyed 2024-04-03 15:28:18 +02:00
.clang-format iommu: Add for_each_group_device() 2023-05-23 08:15:51 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore get_maintainer: add Alan to .get_maintainer.ignore 2022-08-20 15:17:44 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore kbuild: rpm-pkg: rename binkernel.spec to kernel.spec 2023-07-25 00:59:33 +09:00
.mailmap 20 hotfixes. 12 are cc:stable and the remainder address post-6.5 issues 2023-10-24 09:52:16 -10:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS USB: Remove Wireless USB and UWB documentation 2023-08-09 14:17:32 +02:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS ALSA: scarlett2: Rename scarlett_gen2 to scarlett2 2024-04-27 17:11:36 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.6.32 2024-05-25 16:22:56 +02:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.