Re: [RFC PATCH 1/2] HID: uhid: Don't send the report ID if it's zero

[Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>]

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On Mon, Dec 12, 2022 at 7:23 AM David Rheinsberg
<david.rheinsberg@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2022 at 22:04, Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Report ID of zero is a special case handling ID-less reports and in
> > that case we should omit report ID from the payload being sent to the
> > backend.
> >
> > Without this change UHID_DEV_NUMBERED_{FEATURE,OUTPUT}_REPORTS doesn't
> > represent a semantical difference.
> >
> > Cc: David Rheinsberg <david.rheinsberg@gmail.com>
> > Cc: Jiri Kosina <jikos@kernel.org>
> > Cc: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
> > Cc: linux-input@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
> > Cc: linux-usb@vger.kernel.org
> > Signed-off-by: Andrey Smirnov <andrew.smirnov@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/hid/uhid.c | 15 ++++++++++++---
> >  1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/uhid.c b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
> > index 2a918aeb0af1..7551120215e8 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/uhid.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/uhid.c
> > @@ -273,11 +273,11 @@ static int uhid_hid_get_report(struct hid_device *hid, unsigned char rnum,
> >  }
> >
> >  static int uhid_hid_set_report(struct hid_device *hid, unsigned char rnum,
> > -                              const u8 *buf, size_t count, u8 rtype)
> > +                              u8 *buf, size_t count, u8 rtype)
> >  {
> >         struct uhid_device *uhid = hid->driver_data;
> >         struct uhid_event *ev;
> > -       int ret;
> > +       int ret, skipped_report_id = 0;
> >
> >         if (!READ_ONCE(uhid->running) || count > UHID_DATA_MAX)
> >                 return -EIO;
> > @@ -286,6 +286,15 @@ static int uhid_hid_set_report(struct hid_device *hid, unsigned char rnum,
> >         if (!ev)
> >                 return -ENOMEM;
> >
> > +       /* Byte 0 is the report number. Report data starts at byte 1.*/
> > +       buf[0] = rnum;
> > +       if (buf[0] == 0x0) {
> > +               /* Don't send the Report ID */
> > +               buf++;
> > +               count--;
> > +               skipped_report_id = 1;
> > +       }
> > +
>
> In HID core, the buffer is filled by a call to hid_output_report() in
> __hid_request(). And hid_output_report() only writes the ID if it is
> non-zero. So your patch looks like it is duplicating this logic?

It would be in this scenario. But then I think it also means that
USBHID will incorrectly strip an extra byte of the payload if it's
zero for reports that don't have a report id, right? So maybe the fix
for this is to get rid of payload adjustment in set/send paths in
USBHID and move the adjustment to hidraw?

> In which scenario is the report-ID not skipped exactly?

The call chain in my use case is as follows:

hidraw_ioctl(HIDIOCSFEATURE) -> hid_hw_raw_request() ->
uhid_hid_raw_request() -> uhid_hid_set_report()

>
> Regardless, if you want to mess with the buffer, you should do that
> after the memcpy(). I don't see why we should mess with the buffer
> from HID core, when we have our own, anyway.
>

I was just mimicking code from USBHID, to make it clear it served the
same purpose, that

buf[0] = rnum;

isn't strictly necessary and could be dropped.