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<title>linux.git/drivers/input/evdev.c, branch v7.2-rc7</title>
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<title>Input: evdev - sanitize event type index when fetching event masks</title>
<updated>2026-08-06T06:04:05+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-08-04T01:41:49+00:00</published>
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The user-supplied event type index passed to EVIOCGMASK / EVIOCSMASK
ioctls is used to index the static counts array in evdev_get_mask_cnt()
and client evmasks array in evdev_get_mask().

While the event type is architecturally bounded by EV_CNT, speculative
execution may mispredict bounds checks and perform out-of-bounds loads.

Sanitize the event type index in evdev_get_mask_cnt() branchlessly using
array_index_mask_nospec(). This clamps the index to 0 for safe array
access and forces the returned count to 0 speculatively when the index
is out of bounds.

We do not need additional array_index_nospec() calls in evdev_get_mask()
because evdev_get_mask_cnt() speculatively forces the count (and
resulting xfer_size) to 0 for out-of-bounds types, preventing any
speculative memory access to client evmasks array.

Reported-by: "Wagenaar, C.C.J. (Chris)" &lt;c.c.j.wagenaar@vu.nl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/anFCAfvxwXB5eJF1@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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The user-supplied event type index passed to EVIOCGMASK / EVIOCSMASK
ioctls is used to index the static counts array in evdev_get_mask_cnt()
and client evmasks array in evdev_get_mask().

While the event type is architecturally bounded by EV_CNT, speculative
execution may mispredict bounds checks and perform out-of-bounds loads.

Sanitize the event type index in evdev_get_mask_cnt() branchlessly using
array_index_mask_nospec(). This clamps the index to 0 for safe array
access and forces the returned count to 0 speculatively when the index
is out of bounds.

We do not need additional array_index_nospec() calls in evdev_get_mask()
because evdev_get_mask_cnt() speculatively forces the count (and
resulting xfer_size) to 0 for out-of-bounds types, preventing any
speculative memory access to client evmasks array.

Reported-by: "Wagenaar, C.C.J. (Chris)" &lt;c.c.j.wagenaar@vu.nl&gt;
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Assisted-by: Antigravity:gemini-3.6-flash
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@linuxfoundation.org&gt;
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/anFCAfvxwXB5eJF1@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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<title>Input: evdev - fix information leak in evdev_pass_values()</title>
<updated>2026-08-04T00:51:29+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2026-07-29T18:30:45+00:00</published>
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In evdev_pass_values(), the input_event structure is allocated on the
kernel stack and populated field-by-field. However, it is never fully
initialized. On architectures where struct input_event contains explicit
or implicit padding (such as the 32-bit __pad field on SPARC64), these
padding bytes are left uninitialized.

When this event structure is subsequently passed to the client buffer
and later copied to userspace, the uninitialized padding bytes leak
kernel stack memory, potentially exposing sensitive information.

Similar issues exist in __evdev_queue_syn_dropped and __pass_event.

Fix this by explicitly zeroing the entire event structure with memset()
before populating its fields. This ensures all padding bytes are cleared
before the data crosses the security boundary.

Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ampGGKo4UMKru6f5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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In evdev_pass_values(), the input_event structure is allocated on the
kernel stack and populated field-by-field. However, it is never fully
initialized. On architectures where struct input_event contains explicit
or implicit padding (such as the 32-bit __pad field on SPARC64), these
padding bytes are left uninitialized.

When this event structure is subsequently passed to the client buffer
and later copied to userspace, the uninitialized padding bytes leak
kernel stack memory, potentially exposing sensitive information.

Similar issues exist in __evdev_queue_syn_dropped and __pass_event.

Fix this by explicitly zeroing the entire event structure with memset()
before populating its fields. This ensures all padding bytes are cleared
before the data crosses the security boundary.

Reported-by: sashiko-bot@kernel.org
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/ampGGKo4UMKru6f5@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_flex' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T01:06:51+00:00</published>
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This is the exact same thing as the 'alloc_obj()' version, only much
smaller because there are a lot fewer users of the *alloc_flex()
interface.

As with alloc_obj() version, this was done entirely with mindless brute
force, using the same script, except using 'flex' in the pattern rather
than 'objs*'.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Convert 'alloc_obj' family to use the new default GFP_KERNEL argument</title>
<updated>2026-02-22T01:09:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-22T00:37:42+00:00</published>
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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This was done entirely with mindless brute force, using

    git grep -l '\&lt;k[vmz]*alloc_objs*(.*, GFP_KERNEL)' |
        xargs sed -i 's/\(alloc_objs*(.*\), GFP_KERNEL)/\1)/'

to convert the new alloc_obj() users that had a simple GFP_KERNEL
argument to just drop that argument.

Note that due to the extreme simplicity of the scripting, any slightly
more complex cases spread over multiple lines would not be triggered:
they definitely exist, but this covers the vast bulk of the cases, and
the resulting diff is also then easier to check automatically.

For the same reason the 'flex' versions will be done as a separate
conversion.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>treewide: Replace kmalloc with kmalloc_obj for non-scalar types</title>
<updated>2026-02-21T09:02:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kees Cook</name>
<email>kees@kernel.org</email>
</author>
<published>2026-02-21T07:49:23+00:00</published>
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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This is the result of running the Coccinelle script from
scripts/coccinelle/api/kmalloc_objs.cocci. The script is designed to
avoid scalar types (which need careful case-by-case checking), and
instead replace kmalloc-family calls that allocate struct or union
object instances:

Single allocations:	kmalloc(sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_obj(TYPE, ...)

Array allocations:	kmalloc_array(COUNT, sizeof(TYPE), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_objs(TYPE, COUNT, ...)

Flex array allocations:	kmalloc(struct_size(PTR, FAM, COUNT), ...)
are replaced with:	kmalloc_flex(*PTR, FAM, COUNT, ...)

(where TYPE may also be *VAR)

The resulting allocations no longer return "void *", instead returning
"TYPE *".

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook &lt;kees@kernel.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Input: evdev - switch matching to EV_SYN</title>
<updated>2025-07-02T04:02:57+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2025-02-18T23:09:21+00:00</published>
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Each input device has EV_SYN capability. This is enforced by the input
core which sets this capability bit unconditionally in
input_register_device().

Switch evdev matching from declaring non-zero id-&gt;driver_info to match
on EV_SYN so that special handling can be removed from
input_match_device() and "driver_info" field can be removed from
input_device_id structure.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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Each input device has EV_SYN capability. This is enforced by the input
core which sets this capability bit unconditionally in
input_register_device().

Switch evdev matching from declaring non-zero id-&gt;driver_info to match
on EV_SYN so that special handling can be removed from
input_match_device() and "driver_info" field can be removed from
input_device_id structure.

Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>[tree-wide] finally take no_llseek out</title>
<updated>2024-09-27T15:18:43+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Al Viro</name>
<email>viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk</email>
</author>
<published>2024-09-27T01:56:11+00:00</published>
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no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441
("fs: remove no_llseek")

To quote that commit,

  At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek -

  git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do
	sed -i '/\&lt;no_llseek\&gt;/d' $i
  done

  would do it.

Unfortunately, that hadn't been done.  Linus, could you do that now, so
that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the
form
	.llseek = no_llseek,
so it's obviously safe.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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no_llseek had been defined to NULL two years ago, in commit 868941b14441
("fs: remove no_llseek")

To quote that commit,

  At -rc1 we'll need do a mechanical removal of no_llseek -

  git grep -l -w no_llseek | grep -v porting.rst | while read i; do
	sed -i '/\&lt;no_llseek\&gt;/d' $i
  done

  would do it.

Unfortunately, that hadn't been done.  Linus, could you do that now, so
that we could finally put that thing to rest? All instances are of the
form
	.llseek = no_llseek,
so it's obviously safe.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro &lt;viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: evdev - limit amount of data for writes</title>
<updated>2024-08-24T06:51:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-08-15T18:41:53+00:00</published>
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Limit amount of data that can be written into an evdev instance at
a given time to 4096 bytes (170 input events) to avoid holding
evdev-&gt;mutex for too long and starving other users.

Reviewed-by: Jeff LaBundy &lt;jeff@labundy.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer &lt;peter.hutterer@who-t.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Zr5L8TUzkJcB9HcF@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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Limit amount of data that can be written into an evdev instance at
a given time to 4096 bytes (170 input events) to avoid holding
evdev-&gt;mutex for too long and starving other users.

Reviewed-by: Jeff LaBundy &lt;jeff@labundy.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Peter Hutterer &lt;peter.hutterer@who-t.net&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/Zr5L8TUzkJcB9HcF@google.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: make events() method return number of events processed</title>
<updated>2024-07-08T23:22:49+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-03T21:37:50+00:00</published>
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In preparation to consolidating filtering and event processing in the
input core change events() method to return number of events processed
by it.

Reviewed-by: Jeff LaBundy &lt;jeff@labundy.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703213756.3375978-4-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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In preparation to consolidating filtering and event processing in the
input core change events() method to return number of events processed
by it.

Reviewed-by: Jeff LaBundy &lt;jeff@labundy.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703213756.3375978-4-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>Input: evdev - remove -&gt;event() method</title>
<updated>2024-07-08T23:22:48+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Dmitry Torokhov</name>
<email>dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2024-07-03T21:37:48+00:00</published>
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Input core favors -&gt;events() (batch) method over -&gt;event() method
if the former is defined, so there is no point in defining evdev_event()
as it is never called. Remove it.

Reviewed-by: Jeff LaBundy &lt;jeff@labundy.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703213756.3375978-2-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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Input core favors -&gt;events() (batch) method over -&gt;event() method
if the former is defined, so there is no point in defining evdev_event()
as it is never called. Remove it.

Reviewed-by: Jeff LaBundy &lt;jeff@labundy.com&gt;
Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires &lt;bentiss@kernel.org&gt;
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240703213756.3375978-2-dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov &lt;dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com&gt;
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