[PATCH 4.14 008/106] HID: wacom: Use "Confidence" flag to prevent reporting invalid contacts

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-12-06T15:10:01Z

From: Jason Gerecke <killertofu@gmail.com>

commit 7fb0413baa7f8a04caef0c504df9af7e0623d296 upstream.

The HID descriptor of many of Wacom's touch input devices include a
"Confidence" usage that signals if a particular touch collection contains
useful data. The driver does not look at this flag, however, which causes
even invalid contacts to be reported to userspace. A lucky combination of
kernel event filtering and device behavior (specifically: contact ID 0 ==
invalid, contact ID >0 == valid; and order all data so that all valid
contacts are reported before any invalid contacts) spare most devices from
any visibly-bad behavior.

The DTH-2452 is one example of an unlucky device that misbehaves. It uses
ID 0 for both the first valid contact and all invalid contacts. Because
we report both the valid and invalid contacts, the kernel reports that
contact 0 first goes down (valid) and then goes up (invalid) in every
report. This causes ~100 clicks per second simply by touching the screen.

This patch inroduces new `confidence` flag in our `hid_data` structure.
The value is initially set to `true` at the start of a report and can be
set to `false` if an invalid touch usage is seen.

Link: https://github.com/linuxwacom/input-wacom/issues/270
Fixes: f8b6a74719b5 ("HID: wacom: generic: Support multiple tools per report")
Signed-off-by: Jason Gerecke <jason.gerecke@wacom.com>
Tested-by: Joshua Dickens <joshua.dickens@wacom.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
---
drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c | 8 +++++++-
drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h | 1 +
2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c
+++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.c
@@ -2433,6 +2433,9 @@ static void wacom_wac_finger_event(struc
struct wacom_features *features = &wacom->wacom_wac.features;

switch (equivalent_usage) {
+ case HID_DG_CONFIDENCE:
+ wacom_wac->hid_data.confidence = value;
+ break;
case HID_GD_X:
wacom_wac->hid_data.x = value;
break;
@@ -2463,7 +2466,8 @@ static void wacom_wac_finger_event(struc

if (usage->usage_index + 1 == field->report_count) {
- if (equivalent_usage == wacom_wac->hid_data.last_slot_field)
+ if (equivalent_usage == wacom_wac->hid_data.last_slot_field &&
+ wacom_wac->hid_data.confidence)
wacom_wac_finger_slot(wacom_wac, wacom_wac->touch_input);
}
}
@@ -2476,6 +2480,8 @@ static void wacom_wac_finger_pre_report(
struct hid_data* hid_data = &wacom_wac->hid_data;
int i;

+ hid_data->confidence = true;
+
for (i = 0; i < report->maxfield; i++) {
struct hid_field *field = report->field[i];
int j;
--- a/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h
+++ b/drivers/hid/wacom_wac.h
@@ -293,6 +293,7 @@ struct hid_data {
bool inrange_state;
bool invert_state;
bool tipswitch;
+ bool confidence;
int x;
int y;
int pressure;