Re: [PATCH 1/1] HID: uhid: Fix out-of-bounds write caused by raw events mismanagement

[Benjamin Tissoires <bentiss@kernel.org>]

On Feb 26 2026, Lee Jones wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2026, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Feb 2026, Benjamin Tissoires wrote:
> > 
> > > Long story short: that patch is too intrusive as it makes assumption on
> > > the behavior of the device. We need to understand where/if the bug was
> > > spotted and fix the caller of hid_hw_raw_request, not the uhid
> > > implementation.
> > 
> > Thanks a lot for the analysis, Benjamin!
> > 
> > I asked about that here:
> > 
> > 	https://lore.kernel.org/all/172q4775-616s-p7s4-7n80-p8579n0r3516@xreary.bet/
> > 
> > So let's wait for Lee to clarify. Until that, the patch stays out of the 
> > branch.
> 
> Thanks to both of you for looking into this.  I appreciate your efforts.
> 
> This is very much real world.
> 
> Is there a way to add an errata for the PS3 controller?
> 

Unfortunatelly no. uhid merely emulates what a device can do, and HID is
a convention. So if we were to have a special case to PS3 controllers,
we would then start having to maintain an endless list of quirks when
the issue is *not* in uhid, but in the processing of the device after
(maybe in hid-core?).

Cheers,
Benjamin