From 331415ff16a12147d57d5c953f3a961b7ede348b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Kees Cook Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2013 21:56:50 +0200 Subject: HID: provide a helper for validating hid reports Many drivers need to validate the characteristics of their HID report during initialization to avoid misusing the reports. This adds a common helper to perform validation of the report exisitng, the field existing, and the expected number of values within the field. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Reviewed-by: Benjamin Tissoires Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- include/linux/hid.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/linux/hid.h b/include/linux/hid.h index ee1ffc5e19c9..31b9d299ef6c 100644 --- a/include/linux/hid.h +++ b/include/linux/hid.h @@ -756,6 +756,10 @@ u8 *hid_alloc_report_buf(struct hid_report *report, gfp_t flags); struct hid_device *hid_allocate_device(void); struct hid_report *hid_register_report(struct hid_device *device, unsigned type, unsigned id); int hid_parse_report(struct hid_device *hid, __u8 *start, unsigned size); +struct hid_report *hid_validate_values(struct hid_device *hid, + unsigned int type, unsigned int id, + unsigned int field_index, + unsigned int report_counts); int hid_open_report(struct hid_device *device); int hid_check_keys_pressed(struct hid_device *hid); int hid_connect(struct hid_device *hid, unsigned int connect_mask); -- cgit v1.2.3