Re: [PATCH] Input: spaceball - fix parsing of movement data packets

[Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>]

Hi Leo,

On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 09:06:24PM -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote:
> The spaceball.c module was not properly parsing the movement reports
> coming from the device.  The code read axis data as signed 16-bit
> little-endian values starting at offset 2.
> 
> In fact, axis data in Spaceball movement reports are signed 16-bit
> big-endian values starting at offset 3.  This was determined first by
> visually inspecting the data packets, and later verified by consulting:
> http://spacemice.org/pdf/SpaceBall_2003-3003_Protocol.pdf
> 
> If this ever worked properly, it was in the time before Git...

Thank you for the patch.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Leo L. Schwab <ewhac@ewhac.org>
> ---
>  drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c | 16 +++++++++++++---
>  1 file changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c b/drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c
> index 429411c6c0a8..43bfb3d2fa8a 100644
> --- a/drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c
> +++ b/drivers/input/joystick/spaceball.c
> @@ -74,10 +74,20 @@ static void spaceball_process_packet(struct spaceball* spaceball)
>  	switch (spaceball->data[0]) {
>  
>  		case 'D':					/* Ball data */
> +			/*
> +			 * Skip first three bytes; read six axes worth of data.
> +			 * Axis values are signed 16-bit big-endian.
> +			 */
>  			if (spaceball->idx != 15) return;
> -			for (i = 0; i < 6; i++)
> -				input_report_abs(dev, spaceball_axes[i],
> -					(__s16)((data[2 * i + 3] << 8) | data[2 * i + 2]));
> +			data += 3;
> +			for (i = 0;
> +			     i < ARRAY_SIZE(spaceball_axes);
> +			     ++i, data += sizeof(__s16)) {
> +				input_report_abs(
> +					dev,
> +					spaceball_axes[i],
> +					(__s16)((data[0] << 8) | data[1]));
> +			}

Could we write

			for (i == 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(spaceball_axes); i++)
				input_report_abs(dev, spaceball_axes[i],
					(__s16)(get_unaligned_be16(&data[i * 2]);

instead?

Thanks!

-- 
Dmitry