Input: reserve 2 events code because of HID

Prior to commit 190d7f02ce8e ("HID: input: do not increment usages when
a duplicate is found") from the v4.18 kernel, HID used to shift the
event codes if a duplicate usage was found. This ended up in a situation
where a device would export a ton of ABS_MISC+n event codes, or a ton
of REL_MISC+n event codes.

This is now fixed, however userspace needs to detect those situation.
Fortunately, ABS_MT_SLOT-1 (ABS_MISC+6) was never assigned a code, and
so libinput can detect fake multitouch devices from genuine ones by
checking if ABS_MT_SLOT-1 is set.

Now that we have REL_WHEEL_HI_RES, libinput won't be able to differentiate
true high res mice from some other device in a pre-v4.18 kernel.

Set in stone that the ABS_MISC+6 and REL_MISC+1 are reserved and should not
be used so userspace can properly work around those old kernels.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Tissoires <benjamin.tissoires@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 18 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
index dad8d3890a3a..6d180cc60a5d 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/input-event-codes.h
@@ -708,7 +708,15 @@
 #define REL_DIAL                0x07
 #define REL_WHEEL               0x08
 #define REL_MISC                0x09
-#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES        0x0a
+/*
+ * 0x0a is reserved and should not be used in input drivers.
+ * It was used by HID as REL_MISC+1 and userspace needs to detect if
+ * the next REL_* event is correct or is just REL_MISC + n.
+ * We define here REL_RESERVED so userspace can rely on it and detect
+ * the situation described above.
+ */
+#define REL_RESERVED            0x0a
+#define REL_WHEEL_HI_RES        0x0b
 #define REL_MAX                 0x0f
 #define REL_CNT                 (REL_MAX+1)
 
@@ -745,6 +753,15 @@
 
 #define ABS_MISC                0x28
 
+/*
+ * 0x2e is reserved and should not be used in input drivers.
+ * It was used by HID as ABS_MISC+6 and userspace needs to detect if
+ * the next ABS_* event is correct or is just ABS_MISC + n.
+ * We define here ABS_RESERVED so userspace can rely on it and detect
+ * the situation described above.
+ */
+#define ABS_RESERVED            0x2e
+
 #define ABS_MT_SLOT             0x2f    /* MT slot being modified */
 #define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MAJOR      0x30    /* Major axis of touching ellipse */
 #define ABS_MT_TOUCH_MINOR      0x31    /* Minor axis (omit if circular) */