HID: introduce proper zeroing of unused bits in output reports

Some HID devices are looking on the unused bits in the HID reports they
receive. This is violating the specification, but we want to make those
devices work. Well-behaving devices are unaffected, as they don't care
about the unused bits.

If bitsused % 8 is 0 all bits in data[] get used and we don't need to
clear anything. Otherwise (bitsused % 8) bits of the last byte get used.
By shifting 1 for (bitsused % 8) bits and subtracting 1 we create a mask
consisting of (bitsused % 8) ones and remaining zeroes. By ANDing we
clear the upper unused bits.

Signed-off-by: Simon Budig <simon@budig.de>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
index 67f3347afcf3..c16c9499d9c4 100644
--- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
@@ -872,8 +872,13 @@ static void hid_output_field(struct hid_field *field, __u8 *data)
         unsigned count = field->report_count;
         unsigned offset = field->report_offset;
         unsigned size = field->report_size;
+        unsigned bitsused = offset + count * size;
         unsigned n;
 
+        /* make sure the unused bits in the last byte are zeros */
+        if (count > 0 && size > 0 && (bitsused % 8) != 0)
+                data[(bitsused-1)/8] &= (1 << (bitsused % 8)) - 1;
+
         for (n = 0; n < count; n++) {
                 if (field->logical_minimum < 0) /* signed values */
                         implement(data, offset + n * size, size, s32ton(field->value[n], size));