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[resend] Input: i8042 - Allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller

Message ID 20201008112628.3979-2-hdegoede@redhat.com (mailing list archive)
State Accepted
Commit b1884583fcd17d6a1b1bba94bbb5826e6b5c6e17
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Series [resend] Input: i8042 - Allow insmod to succeed on devices without an i8042 controller | expand

Commit Message

Hans de Goede Oct. 8, 2020, 11:26 a.m. UTC
The i8042 module exports several symbols which may be used by other
modules.

Before this commit it would refuse to load (when built as a module itself)
on systems without an i8042 controller.

This is a problem specifically for the asus-nb-wmi module. Many Asus
laptops support the Asus WMI interface. Some of them have an i8042
controller and need to use i8042_install_filter() to filter some kbd
events. Other models do not have an i8042 controller (e.g. they use an
USB attached kbd).

Before this commit the asus-nb-wmi driver could not be loaded on Asus
models without an i8042 controller, when the i8042 code was built as
a module (as Arch Linux does) because the module_init function of the
i8042 module would fail with -ENODEV and thus the i8042_install_filter
symbol could not be loaded.

This commit fixes this by exiting from module_init with a return code
of 0 if no controller is found.  It also adds a i8042_present bool to
make the module_exit function a no-op in this case and also adds a
check for i8042_present to the exported i8042_command function.

The latter i8042_present check should not really be necessary because
when builtin that function can already be used on systems without
an i8042 controller, but better safe then sorry.

Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Iacob <themariusus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---
 drivers/input/serio/i8042.c | 12 +++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

Comments

Dmitry Torokhov Oct. 27, 2020, 3:56 a.m. UTC | #1
On Thu, Oct 08, 2020 at 01:26:28PM +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> The i8042 module exports several symbols which may be used by other
> modules.
> 
> Before this commit it would refuse to load (when built as a module itself)
> on systems without an i8042 controller.
> 
> This is a problem specifically for the asus-nb-wmi module. Many Asus
> laptops support the Asus WMI interface. Some of them have an i8042
> controller and need to use i8042_install_filter() to filter some kbd
> events. Other models do not have an i8042 controller (e.g. they use an
> USB attached kbd).
> 
> Before this commit the asus-nb-wmi driver could not be loaded on Asus
> models without an i8042 controller, when the i8042 code was built as
> a module (as Arch Linux does) because the module_init function of the
> i8042 module would fail with -ENODEV and thus the i8042_install_filter
> symbol could not be loaded.
> 
> This commit fixes this by exiting from module_init with a return code
> of 0 if no controller is found.  It also adds a i8042_present bool to
> make the module_exit function a no-op in this case and also adds a
> check for i8042_present to the exported i8042_command function.
> 
> The latter i8042_present check should not really be necessary because
> when builtin that function can already be used on systems without
> an i8042 controller, but better safe then sorry.
> 
> Reported-and-tested-by: Marius Iacob <themariusus@gmail.com>
> Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>

Applied, thank you.
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diff --git a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
index d3eda48032e3..944cbb519c6d 100644
--- a/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
+++ b/drivers/input/serio/i8042.c
@@ -122,6 +122,7 @@  module_param_named(unmask_kbd_data, i8042_unmask_kbd_data, bool, 0600);
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(unmask_kbd_data, "Unconditional enable (may reveal sensitive data) of normally sanitize-filtered kbd data traffic debug log [pre-condition: i8042.debug=1 enabled]");
 #endif
 
+static bool i8042_present;
 static bool i8042_bypass_aux_irq_test;
 static char i8042_kbd_firmware_id[128];
 static char i8042_aux_firmware_id[128];
@@ -343,6 +344,9 @@  int i8042_command(unsigned char *param, int command)
 	unsigned long flags;
 	int retval;
 
+	if (!i8042_present)
+		return -1;
+
 	spin_lock_irqsave(&i8042_lock, flags);
 	retval = __i8042_command(param, command);
 	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&i8042_lock, flags);
@@ -1612,12 +1616,15 @@  static int __init i8042_init(void)
 
 	err = i8042_platform_init();
 	if (err)
-		return err;
+		return (err == -ENODEV) ? 0 : err;
 
 	err = i8042_controller_check();
 	if (err)
 		goto err_platform_exit;
 
+	/* Set this before creating the dev to allow i8042_command to work right away */
+	i8042_present = true;
+
 	pdev = platform_create_bundle(&i8042_driver, i8042_probe, NULL, 0, NULL, 0);
 	if (IS_ERR(pdev)) {
 		err = PTR_ERR(pdev);
@@ -1636,6 +1643,9 @@  static int __init i8042_init(void)
 
 static void __exit i8042_exit(void)
 {
+	if (!i8042_present)
+		return;
+
 	platform_device_unregister(i8042_platform_device);
 	platform_driver_unregister(&i8042_driver);
 	i8042_platform_exit();