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| author | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2014-02-27 11:36:04 +1000 |
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| committer | Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net> | 2014-03-06 09:21:02 +1000 |
| commit | 2e06aed955f55f704b14c265391dc2ce418b8e9f (patch) | |
| tree | eedcedd5948c5a8097e404c996bc349751b793ab /libevdev/libevdev.h | |
| parent | 5b0b2ae114ef366e3d524236df445f41f575609f (diff) | |
| download | libevdev-2e06aed955f55f704b14c265391dc2ce418b8e9f.tar.gz | |
Don't sync past MAX_SLOTS slots
If a device has more than MAX_SLOTS slots, we'd run out-of-bounds on the sync
array. This function is sig-safe, so we can't alloc here, merely limit the
access.
Reported-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Hutterer <peter.hutterer@who-t.net>
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@gmail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'libevdev/libevdev.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | libevdev/libevdev.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/libevdev/libevdev.h b/libevdev/libevdev.h index d019114..b13e746 100644 --- a/libevdev/libevdev.h +++ b/libevdev/libevdev.h @@ -693,6 +693,10 @@ enum libevdev_read_status { * device state delta. This function returns @ref LIBEVDEV_READ_STATUS_SYNC for * each event part of that delta, until it returns -EAGAIN once all events * have been synced. + * @note The implementation of libevdev limits the maximum number of slots + * that can be synched. If your device exceeds the number of slots + * (currently 32), slot indices equal and above this maximum are ignored and + * their value will not update until the next event in that slot. * * If a device needs to be synced by the caller but the caller does not call * with the @ref LIBEVDEV_READ_FLAG_SYNC flag set, all events from the diff are |