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SubjectRe: [PATCH v3] HID: nintendo: check analog user calibration for plausibility
For my v4 patch I'll just change the check back to using >=. The
signedness of the min, max and center values will probably need some
sort of fix, but that's out of the scope of this patch.

- Johnothan King

------- Original Message -------
On Wednesday, September 21st, 2022 at 1:34 AM, Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com> wrote:


> Hi Johnothan,
>
> On Sep 21 2022, Johnothan King wrote:
>
> > Arne Wendt writes:
> > Cheap clone controllers may (falsely) report as having a user
> > calibration for the analog sticks in place, but return
> > wrong/impossible values for the actual calibration data.
> > In the present case at mine, the controller reports having a
> > user calibration in place and successfully executes the read
> > commands. The reported user calibration however is
> > min = center = max = 0.
> >
> > This pull request addresses problems of this kind by checking the
> > provided user calibration-data for plausibility (min < center < max)
> > and falling back to the default values if implausible.
> >
> > I'll note that I was experiencing a crash because of this bug when using
> > the GuliKit KingKong 2 controller. The crash manifests as a divide by
> > zero error in the kernel logs:
> > kernel: divide error: 0000 [#1] PREEMPT SMP NOPTI
> >
> > Changes in v2:
> > - Move the plausibility check to joycon_read_stick_calibration() and
> > have that function return -EINVAL if the check fails.
> > - In the plausibility check, change >= to ==. hid_field_extract() never
> > returns a negative value, so a scenario involving min > center or
> > center > max is impossible.
>
>
> I am not so sure this is a great idea. I agree this is correct, but it
> definitely requires some processing from my brain and double
> verifications in the code that this is correct.
>
> The problem is that all of the values are declared as s32.
> hid_field_extract() returns a u32, yes, but I haven't checked the report
> descriptor if that value can be a negative one. What needs to be done,
> if the logical min value is negative is that we should call hid_snto32()
> to convert into a proper s32 (I doubt you have to do it but I am putting
> it here for completeness).
>
> So basically, you are blindly converting a u32 into a s32 and do not
> take rollover into account.
>
> Given that this function is only called at probe time where timing is
> not the biggest of our concerns, I would simply leave the more human
> friendy with obvious failures cases with >= and <=.
>
>
>
> Second note: please move all "Changes in v*" below the first '---' and
> before the file stats. This way they will be stripped out when applying
> the patch. People who want to see the changes can always follow the lore
> link that should be applied to the commit when this patch gets applied.
>
> > - To reduce code duplication, move the code for setting default
> > calibration values into a single function called
> > joycon_use_default_calibration().
> >
> > Changes in v3:
> > - Unbreak warning string to conform to coding style.
> > - Change joycon_use_default_calibration() to accept a struct hid_device
> > pointer instead of a struct joycon_ctlr pointer.
> >
> > Link: https://github.com/nicman23/dkms-hid-nintendo/pull/25
> > Link: https://github.com/DanielOgorchock/linux/issues/36
> > Co-authored-by: Arne Wendt arne.wendt@tuhh.de
> > Signed-off-by: Johnothan King johnothanking@protonmail.com
> > ---
> > drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c | 55 +++++++++++++++++++++-----------------
> > 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 25 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c b/drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c
> > index 6028af3c3aae..f25b7b19e9a4 100644
> > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c
> > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-nintendo.c
> > @@ -760,12 +760,31 @@ static int joycon_read_stick_calibration(struct joycon_ctlr *ctlr, u16 cal_addr,
> > cal_y->max = cal_y->center + y_max_above;
> > cal_y->min = cal_y->center - y_min_below;
> >
> > - return 0;
> > + /* check if values are plausible */
> > + if (cal_x->min == cal_x->center || cal_x->center == cal_x->max ||
> > + cal_y->min == cal_y->center || cal_y->center == cal_y->max)
> > + ret = -EINVAL;
> > +
> > + return ret;
> > }
> >
> > static const u16 DFLT_STICK_CAL_CEN = 2000;
> > static const u16 DFLT_STICK_CAL_MAX = 3500;
> > static const u16 DFLT_STICK_CAL_MIN = 500;
> > +static void joycon_use_default_calibration(struct hid_device *hdev,
> > + struct joycon_stick_cal *cal_x,
> > + struct joycon_stick_cal *cal_y,
> > + const char *stick, int ret)
> > +{
> > + hid_warn(hdev,
> > + "Failed to read %s stick cal, using defaults; e=%d\n", stick,
> > + ret);
>
>
> nitpick: why not putting the format string on the line above and leave
> "stick" and "ret in the second line? It should be OK for checkpatch and
> will be less weird to have "ret" on its line all by itself.
>
> > +
> > + cal_x->center = cal_y->center = DFLT_STICK_CAL_CEN;
> > + cal_x->max = cal_y->max = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MAX;
> > + cal_x->min = cal_y->min = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MIN;
> > +}
> > +
> > static int joycon_request_calibration(struct joycon_ctlr *ctlr)
> > {
> > u16 left_stick_addr = JC_CAL_FCT_DATA_LEFT_ADDR;
> > @@ -793,38 +812,24 @@ static int joycon_request_calibration(struct joycon_ctlr *ctlr)
> > &ctlr->left_stick_cal_x,
> > &ctlr->left_stick_cal_y,
> > true);
> > - if (ret) {
> > - hid_warn(ctlr->hdev,
> > - "Failed to read left stick cal, using dflts; e=%d\n",
> > - ret);
> > -
> > - ctlr->left_stick_cal_x.center = DFLT_STICK_CAL_CEN;
> > - ctlr->left_stick_cal_x.max = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MAX;
> > - ctlr->left_stick_cal_x.min = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MIN;
> >
> > - ctlr->left_stick_cal_y.center = DFLT_STICK_CAL_CEN;
> > - ctlr->left_stick_cal_y.max = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MAX;
> > - ctlr->left_stick_cal_y.min = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MIN;
> > - }
> > + if (ret)
> > + joycon_use_default_calibration(ctlr->hdev,
> > + &ctlr->left_stick_cal_x,
> > + &ctlr->left_stick_cal_y,
> > + "left", ret);
> >
> > /* read the right stick calibration data */
> > ret = joycon_read_stick_calibration(ctlr, right_stick_addr,
> > &ctlr->right_stick_cal_x,
> > &ctlr->right_stick_cal_y,
> > false);
> > - if (ret) {
> > - hid_warn(ctlr->hdev,
> > - "Failed to read right stick cal, using dflts; e=%d\n",
> > - ret);
> > -
> > - ctlr->right_stick_cal_x.center = DFLT_STICK_CAL_CEN;
> > - ctlr->right_stick_cal_x.max = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MAX;
> > - ctlr->right_stick_cal_x.min = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MIN;
> >
> > - ctlr->right_stick_cal_y.center = DFLT_STICK_CAL_CEN;
> > - ctlr->right_stick_cal_y.max = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MAX;
> > - ctlr->right_stick_cal_y.min = DFLT_STICK_CAL_MIN;
> > - }
> > + if (ret)
> > + joycon_use_default_calibration(ctlr->hdev,
> > + &ctlr->right_stick_cal_x,
> > + &ctlr->right_stick_cal_y,
> > + "right", ret);
> >
> > hid_dbg(ctlr->hdev, "calibration:\n"
> > "l_x_c=%d l_x_max=%d l_x_min=%d\n"
> > --
> > 2.37.3
>
>
> Cheers,
> Benjamin

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