Commit 4ab8f7f3 authored by Pali Rohár's avatar Pali Rohár Committed by Dmitry Torokhov

Input: alps - ignore potential bare packets when device is out of sync

5th and 6th byte of ALPS trackstick V3 protocol match condition for first
byte of PS/2 3 bytes packet. When driver enters out of sync state and ALPS
trackstick is sending data then driver match 5th, 6th and next 1st bytes as
PS/2.

It basically means if user is using trackstick when driver is in out of
sync state driver will never resync. Processing these bytes as 3 bytes PS/2
data cause total mess (random cursor movements, random clicks) and make
trackstick unusable until psmouse driver decide to do full device reset.

Lot of users reported problems with ALPS devices on Dell Latitude E6440,
E6540 and E7440 laptops. ALPS device or Dell EC for unknown reason send
some invalid ALPS PS/2 bytes which cause driver out of sync. It looks like
that i8042 and psmouse/alps driver always receive group of 6 bytes packets
so there are no missing bytes and no bytes were inserted between valid
ones.

This patch does not fix root of problem with ALPS devices found in Dell
Latitude laptops but it does not allow to process some (invalid)
subsequence of 6 bytes ALPS packets as 3 bytes PS/2 when driver is out of
sync.

So with this patch trackstick input device does not report bogus data when
also driver is out of sync, so trackstick should be usable on those
machines.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Tested-by: default avatarPali Rohár <pali.rohar@gmail.com>
Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Reviewed-by: default avatarHans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
parent 0dc15879
...@@ -1156,7 +1156,13 @@ static psmouse_ret_t alps_process_byte(struct psmouse *psmouse) ...@@ -1156,7 +1156,13 @@ static psmouse_ret_t alps_process_byte(struct psmouse *psmouse)
{ {
struct alps_data *priv = psmouse->private; struct alps_data *priv = psmouse->private;
if ((psmouse->packet[0] & 0xc8) == 0x08) { /* PS/2 packet */ /*
* Check if we are dealing with a bare PS/2 packet, presumably from
* a device connected to the external PS/2 port. Because bare PS/2
* protocol does not have enough constant bits to self-synchronize
* properly we only do this if the device is fully synchronized.
*/
if (!psmouse->out_of_sync_cnt && (psmouse->packet[0] & 0xc8) == 0x08) {
if (psmouse->pktcnt == 3) { if (psmouse->pktcnt == 3) {
alps_report_bare_ps2_packet(psmouse, psmouse->packet, alps_report_bare_ps2_packet(psmouse, psmouse->packet,
true); true);
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