Patch "Input: uinput - fix crash when mixing old and new init style" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

Input: uinput - fix crash when mixing old and new init style

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
input-uinput-fix-crash-when-mixing-old-and-new-init-style.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2017 14:56:43 -0800
Subject: Input: uinput - fix crash when mixing old and new init style

From: Dmitry Torokhov <[email protected]>

commit 601bbbe0517303c9f8eb3d75e11d64efed1293c9 upstream.

If user tries to initialize uinput device mixing old and new style initialization (i.e. using old UI_SET_ABSBIT instead of UI_ABS_SETUP, we forget to allocate input->absinfo and will crash when trying to send absolute events:

        ioctl(ui, UI_DEV_SETUP, &us);
        ioctl(ui, UI_SET_PHYS, "Test");

        ioctl(ui, UI_SET_EVBIT, EV_ABS);
        ioctl(ui, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_X);
        ioctl(ui, UI_SET_ABSBIT, ABS_Y);
        ioctl(ui, UI_DEV_CREATE, 0);

Bugzilla: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=191811

---
 drivers/input/misc/uinput.c |   20 ++++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -263,13 +263,21 @@ static int uinput_create_device(struct u
 		return -EINVAL;
 	}
 
-	if (test_bit(ABS_MT_SLOT, dev->absbit)) {
-		nslot = input_abs_get_max(dev, ABS_MT_SLOT) + 1;
-		error = input_mt_init_slots(dev, nslot, 0);
-		if (error)
+	if (test_bit(EV_ABS, dev->evbit)) {
+		input_alloc_absinfo(dev);
+		if (!dev->absinfo) {
+			error = -EINVAL;
 			goto fail1;
-	} else if (test_bit(ABS_MT_POSITION_X, dev->absbit)) {
-		input_set_events_per_packet(dev, 60);
+		}
+
+		if (test_bit(ABS_MT_SLOT, dev->absbit)) {
+			nslot = input_abs_get_max(dev, ABS_MT_SLOT) + 1;
+			error = input_mt_init_slots(dev, nslot, 0);
+			if (error)
+				goto fail1;
+		} else if (test_bit(ABS_MT_POSITION_X, dev->absbit)) {
+			input_set_events_per_packet(dev, 60);
+		}
 	}
 
 	if (test_bit(EV_FF, dev->evbit) && !udev->ff_effects_max) {

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/input-uinput-fix-crash-when-mixing-old-and-new-init-style.patch